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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

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 2.0
Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Dominic Thorburn
Duration 14 hours and 8 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473586345
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Historical romance
Availability AU, GB, IE, US
Rating
5.0 (1 review)
Narration
2.0 (1 review)

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