The Convenient Marriage

by Georgette Heyer

When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives her own, distinctly original plans ...

Fo over fifty years until her death in 1974, Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction, and the The Convenient Marriage shows why she configures to be loved by a huge readership to this day.

• ISBN10: 0099474425
• ISBN13: 9780099474425
• Publish Date: 6 January 2005 (first published 1934)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 August 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

If a movie adaptation of this novel had ever been made, it would have had to involve Tim Conway and Don Knots.     

Nominally a romance, but truly, the book is pure slapstick comedy from start to finish.  Lord Rule was the only character that wasn't ridiculous, and as a hero, this book does him a disadvantage because although events show him in the best possible light, no one with that much intelligence and foresight deserves the lunatic asylum Heyer built around him.   

I enjoyed the book, but the slapstick is so thick on the page that it wore thin towards the last third and I was happy to see the end.