Sylvester

Book cover of Sylvester: Or the Wicked Uncle

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"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."―Publishers Weekly

Rank, wealth, and elegance are no match for a young lady who writes novels...

Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has exacting requirements for a bride. Then he meets Phoebe Marlow, a young lady with literary aspirations, and suddenly…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Sylvester as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Annie Burrows

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I love this book for many reasons, one of them being that the heroine is a naïve young author who is having her first book published.

She has used Sylvester, the Duke of Sale, as the model for the villain of her story, because of his “tigerish” eyebrows. Which wouldn’t have mattered, if her family hadn’t decided they ought to get married.

During the course of their unorthodox courtship, (which involves her flight from him, a curricle accident, the kidnapping of his nephew, and the adoption of a French puppy) the arrogant Duke learns that he can’t have whatever he…

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