A Civil Contract

  • Author Georgette Heyer
  • Narrator Dominic Thorburn
  • Publisher Random House
  • Run Time 14 hours and 8 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Historical romance.
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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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