The Convenient Marriage

by Georgette Heyer

Love or license? Fidelity or freedom? Hard choices for a willful young beauty in an age of romantic extravagance. 

THE KNOWING BRIDE — When dazzling Horatia Winwood married the powerful Earl of Rule, she was saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. Hers was a marriage not made in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young beauty.

Not until Horatia was deep in dangerous intrigue with her husband's vengeful rival, the dashing and arrogant Lord Lethbridge, did she suddenly find -- to her own tumultuous surprise -- she had fallen in love with the man she had married for money. But was it too late, now that she was but a heartbeat away from betraying both him and herself?

• Publish Date: 1934
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: William Heinemann Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 279
• 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.