Charity Girl

Name: Charity Girl
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 9781473586086

Author: Georgette Heyer

Narrator: Hugh Skinner

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Cornerstone Digital

Published: 04/22/2021

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

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Charity Steane has nothing in the world but hope.

Escaping a miserable life under her tyrannical aunt, she decides to take her chances with her estranged grandfather in London. Now it's just a matter of finding him... And as a 'charity girl', with no dowry and no options, hope can only get her so far.

But with the help of the dashing and kind-hearted Desford and his dearest friend Hetta, it seems like Charity's fortunes might be about to change.

That is, until the surprise appearance of a long-lost relative throws things into chaos, and suddenly the three friends find themselves surrounded by blackmail and scandal.

Will their efforts to do right by each other plunge them all into ruin?

'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA

'I could mainline Heyer's Regency romances until the end of time and still not get bored . . . Georgette Heyer is perfect lockdown escapism' INDIA KNIGHT

'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS

© Georgette Heyer 1970 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

About Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (1902â€“1974) was a talented author and novelist who is often credited as the creator of the historical romance genre as well as the Regency romance subgenre. In addition to romance, she also wrote mysteries and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on May 17, 2020

Charity Girl is one of Georgette Heyer's later and lesser offerings, but I still found it a fairly amusing and engaging read. Thirty year old Viscount Ashley Desford, after getting chewed out by his ailing father for not getting married to Henrietta (Hetta) Silverdale, the neighbor his father picked......more

Goodreads review by Anne on June 09, 2016

Is this even a Heyer novel?!?! What is this?? Okay, alright, I know I'm being harsh. The quality is there. The gorgeous writing is there. The delightful slang, elegant turn of phrases and general Heyer-feels are there. BUT. Who on earth are those flat, boring, two-dimensional characters??! What the h......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on June 07, 2020

Charity Girl is one of Heyer's last novels, and one of the ones with a more mature hero and heroine--which means the romance is so subdued as to be invisible to some readers. But it's quite to my liking, being about friendship and trust, compatibility and companionship. Ashley Carrington, Lord Desfor......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on October 22, 2013

Like Sprigged Muslin, which has GH's wit and carefully crafted characters but little romance, this story involved the hero, a viscount and heir to a title, becoming entangled with a secondary character, the charity girl of the title, who is not his love interest. He spends much of his time apart fro......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on June 07, 2020

Another enjoyable read from Heyer but not one of her best I think. Other than Des running around the country like a headless chicken, not a lot happens. It's much more dialogue than action but the dialogue is brilliant as usual. This is one where the 'romance' almost happens off the page. It's insin......more

Quotes

Wonderful characters and rapturously romantic

Georgette Heyer is unbeatable

My favourite novelist