Lady Of Quality
Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Update: 3.75 stars. I enjoyed it! I think I’d heard so many complaints about this later Georgette Heyer novel that my expectations were rock-bottom, so I ended up being pleasantly surprised. :D The last Regency novel written by Georgette Heyer, and the GH group's July group read. I confess that I jum......more

Meh. Heyer, you can do better than this. And I'd wager that you knew that when you wrote this, too. Was the rent due soon or something? You've done this better elsewhere... about twenty times. It is a classic cats and dogs fighting couple who hate each other on sight and then soften and fall in love......more

I've seen mixed reviews for this one with GR readers but I have to say I enjoyed it on the whole. I liked Annis. A strong independent woman who knew what she wanted and went after it. Leaving her brother's house to live alone was an unusual decision for a woman of the time. She came across as hard an......more

Late in her career, Georgette Heyer published two novels set in Bath. Both have heroines who are more mature (late twenties) and both have heroes who defy the gentlemanly conventions of the Regency. Black Sheep, the other one of the pair, tends to be the preferred book, and I can see reasons for tha......more

How can Ibe sure that we shall be happy when neither of us has had any experience of marriage? All I can tell you is that I am perfectly sure I want to marry you... For sure, there were a few interesting and mature conversations between the two main characters. I liked that they were equal in it.......more