The Desirable Duchess, M. C. Beaton
The Desirable Duchess, M. C. Beaton
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The Desirable Duchess

Author: M. C. Beaton

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2014


Synopsis

Lovely Alice Lacey was a true incomparable, and her marriage to the Duke of Ferrant was the event of the season. Almost no one realized, however, that Alice was secretly in love with someone else—or that she had confided her feelings to a clever talking mynah bird who announces these intimacies at the moment of the couple's wedding.Now the gossip mongers are relentless. Alice's marriage started out, and has remained, cold and impersonal, and her new husband is already rumored to be taken with another woman.Before she even realizes what is happening, Alice finds herself in a world of opposites: the man she thought she loved is something other than he seems; and the man she married, something far more than she hoped. Her last hope and redemption has to be convincing the man she wedded that they are in love.

About M. C. Beaton

M. C. Beaton, 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 Justine Eyre

Justine Eyre is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has recorded over three-hundred titles. Named a 2013 AudioFile Best Voice, she has won an Audie Award and multiple Earphones Awards. Classically trained and multilingual, she performs on stage, television, and film and has had roles in King Lear and The Crucible, on Two and a Half Men and Mad Men, and in multiple indie-circuit films.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Margo

This one was fun! Both main characters are hotheaded idiots and many people try to manipulate them. I think this is one of the best of these books by Chesney.......more

Goodreads review by Mela

I think I can forgive only Marion Chesney that that a story that began as a promising more complex love story, changed to a farce and then went too silly. The concept for a Regency romance was really charming, and the main characters behaved often surprisingly maturely (avoiding many long stupid misu......more

Goodreads review by Kate

Regency romance with marital melodrama and clownish villains Alice Lacey is the beautiful, 18-year-old daughter, and only offspring, of extremely wealthy, doting parents. Her mother is the daughter of a rich merchant, and her father is a member of the untitled aristocracy. During Alice's first season......more