Venetia: Georgette Heyer Classic Heroines
Author: Georgette Heyer
‘One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer’s books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen’s’ JOANNE HARRIS‘Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism’ SOPHIE KINSELLA __________________________In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate.Nor has she enjoyed the attentions….Read More
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