Simon The Coldheart, Georgette Heyer
Simon The Coldheart, Georgette Heyer
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Simon The Coldheart

Author: Georgette Heyer

Narrator: George Weightman

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2021

Synopsis

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Perfect period detail and rapturously romantic from one of the best known and beloved romantic novelists.

Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour.

After Agincourt, he has no equal save the king himself in generalship - until his legendary prowess is baulked by a woman. In Normandy, the icy rage of Simon the Coldheart must melt - or quench Lady Margaret, spitfire of Belremy.

© Georgette Heyer 1925 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

About Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) 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 Karen on August 05, 2023

4.5 STARS I love Georgette Heyer's books. Every one I've read. This one was a little slow in the beginning. And a good bit longer than it probably needed to be, but... in the end so incredibly worth it. Very romantic.......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on April 01, 2011

Simon is the bastard son of a local lord. When he is 14, he walks miles to get to his father's rival, Fulk of Montlice, and offers him his service. Within a few short years, he is knighted by the king and then, after foiling a plot, given lands of his own. Through grim determination, he becomes one......more

Goodreads review by Tweety on June 02, 2015

Simon is the unrecognized illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Malvallet. At 14 he hasn't much chance of being his own master unless he becomes a squire to someone of consequence. Simon compares his father to Fulk of Montlice (Malvallet's enemy) and decides that Montlice is the better man and goes to him......more

Goodreads review by Mela on August 21, 2016

A masterpiece of genre. It is my first historical fiction of Heyer (excluding "An Infamous Army" which is something between historical fiction and historical romance). And it was a great pleasure. I have spend all my train travel (many hours) with this book. I hadn't noticed when I reached the place.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on January 28, 2009

One of Heyer's best. Pleasantly different in style from her other books because of the historical difference. The style is hard to get into at first because of the use of Old English in dialogue, and general stiffness in narration, but that same stiffness becomes a subtle and powerful device to crea......more

Quotes

Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to

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

A writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds Daily Telegraph

Sparkling Independent on Sunday

Georgette Heyer is unbeatable

Every girl, whatever her age, needs her own complete set of Heyer titles. More than romantic they are witty, elegant, stylish and the best comedies of manners since Jane Austen. Required reading for everyone

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