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Informationen zum Autor Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth , published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John . Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. Klappentext If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'One of my perennial comfort authors' Joanne Harris 'I could mainline Heyer's Regency romances until the end of time and still not get bored' India Knight ____________ Max Ravenscar is a renowned gamester. The first to admit he is entirely void of a romantic disposition, he regards all eligible females with indifference and unconcern. But then he meets the woman his young cousin is bent on marrying - the beautiful Deborah Grantham who also happens to be the mistress of her aunt's gaming establishment. And he finds that none of his experience in risk or gambling has prepared him for such a worthy or beguiling opponent ... ____________ Readers love Faro's Daughter . . . ***** 'I love it! One of the best Heyer books. I couldn't stop reading.' ***** 'There's just something about Georgette Heyer novels that makes my heart happy and leaves me smiling.' ***** 'It had me laughing several times!' ***** 'Scrumptious.' ***** 'I have to say I haven't laughed out loud this many times reading a book in ages!' Zusammenfassung 'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph. A beautifully repackaged edition of one of the best of the best. Renowned gamester and the first to admit that he is entirely void of a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference and unconcern....
