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The Toll-Gate
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Callum Hughes
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 22 April 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre.
Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.
When the Captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance, of a lifetime...
© Georgette Heyer 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to
Katie Fforde
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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
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A writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds
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Details
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Callum Hughes
- Duration
- 10 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473586147
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Romance: wholesome
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre.Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.When the Captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance, of a lifetime...© Georgette Heyer 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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