A Civil Contract

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Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter.

For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and adventure to a wordwide readership and Civil Contract shows how she continues to be loved today.

© Georgette Heyer 1961 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Sparkling
Independent
My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours.
Margaret Drabble
Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to.
Katie Fforde
A writer of great wit and style.... I've read her books to ragged shreds.
Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable
India Knight

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Very odd emphasis on words that spoilt the flow of the narration. A great pity as it is a good story. Does no one check the reading and correct the incorrect pronunciation of so many words? Odd that Penguin does not have an editor that is au fait with Georgette Heyer's world and know better. I wish that one could still find the old readings.
katharine 20/11/2023

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