Diana the Huntress, M. C. Beaton
Diana the Huntress, M. C. Beaton
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Diana the Huntress

Author: M. C. Beaton

Narrator: Charlotte Anne Dore

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2013

Synopsis

It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for the hunt, secretly posing as a man in order to participate in a sport that is considered too vulgar for a lady in Regency England. Her four elder sisters have married well, but Diana fears she will never be as desirous to wed a man as she is to be one. She was born to have a man's freedom to do and say what she wishes, to move about without restraint—or so she thinks until, disguised as David Armitage, she gets a bitter taste of tawdry town life. Diana decides that life as a lady might not be so bad—if only she were permitted to hunt! But Lady Godolphin, Diana's well-meaning if eccentric cousin, will have none of that. She was instrumental, she tells herself, in finding fine husbands for the older Armitage girls, and she is determined not to fail Diana. A certain viscount, Lord Charles Dantry, does not play by the rules, however, upsetting all the best-laid plans to turn Diana into a proper young lady. Diana the huntress becomes the hunted and learns that there is another, infinitely more exciting kind of chase.

About M. C. Beaton

M. C. Beaton (1936–2019), hailed as the “Queen of Crime” by the Globe and Mail, was the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Agatha Raisin novels—the basis for the hit series on Acorn TV—as well as the Hamish Macbeth series. Born in Scotland, Beaton also wrote nearly one hundred historical romances under several pseudonyms. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and sold more than twenty-two million copies worldwide.

About Charlotte Anne Dore

Charlotte Anne Dore is a member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA. She works in theater and film around New England. She played Elizabeth Hopkins in The American Experience and was a gorilla puppeteer in Zookeeper. She runs the award-winning Rosalita’s Puppets. As a storyteller, she has worked for Ghost and Gravestones ghost tour and Read Boston, a summer reading program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mela on September 05, 2017

I feel I am going to repeat what I have written in reviews of other books of series [Minerva, The Taming of Annabelle, Deirdre and Desire]. So, let me say short that it was also charming, funny and wise. I see in this series how good writer Marion Chesney is. One doesn't have to write a high literatu......more

Goodreads review by Melindam on April 24, 2023

2,5 stars In all honesty, every book in this series is on the silly side of entertining, but this reached even more silliness & less entertainment.......more

Goodreads review by QNPoohBear on February 07, 2014

Diana is the 5th of the six sisters and wants nothing to do with men other than to be one. She loves to ride and hunt and has her father's permission to hunt with the pack as long as she dresses like a man. Unfortunately, her father's friend, Squire Radford, discovers her disguise and lectures the R......more

Goodreads review by Anne on April 12, 2015

"'If only I were a man', thought Diana for about the thousandth time in her young life" p 29. "Any girl who dressed as a man and flouted the conventions so blatantly must have the morals of a tom cat" p 69. Icy-blond Lord Mark Dantrey mid-30s p 33 sees through her 'David' disguise and misunderstands......more

Goodreads review by Kate on August 01, 2023

It's kind of disappointing that Diana and her love interest spend 75% of the book apart. Too bad because they had a lot of chemistry when they eventually started to get together.......more

Quotes

“Number five daughter of the Reverend Armitage ‘marries up’ in this latest of Chesney’s amusing Regency series.” Kirkus Reviews

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