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The Honourable Christopher Fancot is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0099476339
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arrow (July 26 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780099476337
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  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 1.57 x 19.99 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Georgian and Regency romances
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If you love Jane Austen and wish she'd written more, you're in for a treat. Georgette Heyer followed in her footsteps and wrote more than 50 books, most of them romances like this one. But start with the first one, The Black Moth. You won't be sorry.
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Katz
4.0 out of 5 stars 2 identical twins... engaged to one and in love with another!
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Lady Denville has 2 grown twin boys who look so similar that when the Earl of Denville doesn't return in time for his "engagement" party (if I can call it that), his brother Kit steps in to pretend to be him for just one night. However, the one night turns into weeks and soon Kit is well on his way of falling in love with his brother fiance Cressy. Most of the novel is centered around Lady Denville and her extravagent spending which has put her in 20,000 pounds of debt which the Earl of Denville feels he must repay. However, unless he marries his uncle won't see fit to give him his inheritance as noted in his fathers will before the age of 30. So the Earl of Denville is engaged to Cressy but neither love the either. Soon though Cressy falls in love with the supposed Earl and Kit starts having feelings for Cressy. You don't really realize this till much later in the book as their feelings are kept from each other and from the readers. Unlike other Heyer novels that end in a declaration of love, they declare their love for each other with still over a 100 pages of reading material. The issue is how to make this work without causing a scandal, horrible gossip and also to the happiness of the Earl of Denville (when he returns, you learn of his feelings also). Lady Denvilles's financial issus get solved with the brothers intervention - that was an interesting twist!
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I do not know WHY I have to Recommend any novel once read when it is my choice to revisit my earliest novel,
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4.0 out of 5 stars juste amusant
Reviewed in France on April 7, 2021
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Mais moins bien que bien d'autres livres de Georgette Heyer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well-developed romance that's fun to read
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This is such a comfortably entertaining read that it's easy to revisit once in a while, in large part because of the gradual and believable evolution of the romance between the two main characters.

Christopher "Kit" Fancot is with the diplomatic corps, currently situated in Vienna as part of Charles Stewart's staff. But a sense of foreboding that his older twin, Evelyn, has suffered an injury has brought him back to London where he arrives at the family home unannounced and in the wee hours. Only Lady Denville is aware of her son's arrival (he climbs through a window when the deaf butler fails to respond to the doorbell) and Kit finds her in a worry - not only had Evelyn failed to return from a trip as expected but he is supposed to attend a dinner party arranged expressly so he could meet and secure the blessings of Lady Stavely on his proposed marriage to her granddaughter.

Kit reluctantly poses as his twin at the dinner party, only agreeing to what he considers an unconscionable masquerade when he's convinced it's what Evelyn would want him to do. He's surprised by the news that Evelyn has decided on a marriage of convenience to Cressida Stavely, whom Evelyn has never even mentioned in his letters, but he soon learns why: to gain control of the inheritance that has been tied up in a Trust since the Earl of Denville's death 15 months earlier so he can pay off his mother's debts.

Cressy is considered on the shelf at the age of 20, having preferred staying with her widowed father and managing his household to any of the marriage offers she'd received. But now her situation has become almost unbearable, with her father remarried to a young woman who detests Cressy as much as Cressy detests her. Though she does not know Evelyn well, she likes him and appreciates his honesty about the reason for proposing. She accepts his offer as a way to escape her increasingly uncomfortable situation but by the time of the dinner party she is having second thoughts about her decision. She becomes even more uncertain at the dinner party because of the subtle differences she detects in Kit's Evelyn, and tells him she wants more time to consider his offer.

Kit is able to pull off the masquerade easily because none of the Stavelys is well-acquainted with Evelyn, but he is determined not to spend more time with Cressy under false colors. He removes to the family estate at Ravenhurst where he hopes to avoid exposure while he tries to discover what happened to Evelyn. He's more mystified than concerned since he would know if Evelyn were dead or in serious distress because of the close connection the twins share.

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The fun begins when Lady Stavely extracts an invitation from Kit's mother and brings Cressy to Ravenhurst for an extended visit. Lady Stavely is intimidating and overbearing but she's sincerely attached to her granddaughter and wants to be sure Cressy would be happy with Evelyn before she countenances the marriage. Evelyn's title and fortune make him a matrimonial prize but Lady Stavely is bothered by the rumors of his amorous adventures.

Kit recognizes Evelyn's recent recklessness for what it is, thoughtless rebellion against the galling terms of his inheritance. But whereas Evelyn has his mother's impetuosity, Kit inherited the best qualities of each of his parents: he is steady and responsible like his emotionally distant father but possesses the charm, affectionate nature and engaging manners that characterize his financially irresponsible mother. He is unstintingly loyal and resolved to carry through with the masquerade because he cannot risk doing otherwise, but he stops short of furthering his brother's interests with Cressy when he realizes he's in love with her himself.

The rest of the Ravenhurst party, invited by Lady Denville to provide a buffer for Kit, is comprised of her most faithful cicisbeo, the obese but urbane and wealthy Sir Bonamy Ripple (I love Heyer's play on names); and her miserly brother Cosmo's family, who provide a bit of comic relief. Lady Denville might have been an exasperating character except that she's so kind, dotes on her sons and can be wonderfully entertaining, as when she gets Cosmo's family to leave sooner than they had planned by telling her sister-in-law there was NOT a scarlet fever epidemic in the village: "Lady Denville, to Kit's intense admiration, managed to beseech her not to fly from Ravenhurst, without in any way lessening her alarm..."

I really liked this couple and the way the romance evolved in the course of their constant interactions at Ravenhurst. As Kit noted at that first dinner party, Cressy has all the poise and self-assurance that her stepmother lacks, having managed her father's household since she was 16, and this explains her stepmother's jealousy and determination to get Cressy married off. And though she was prepared to settle for a marriage of convenience before the story began and would have been a good wife for Evelyn, her personality and the qualities she shares with Kit make her perfect for him. It's easy to see that she will be an ideal diplomat's wife, and I loved that marriage to Kit will give her the chance to realize her childhood dream of traveling to other countries and learning their people and their cultures.

Kit has all the looks, manners and charm of his twin brother but he's much less emotionally volatile and thus more steady and dependable. He was bred to diplomacy but for all that, he's no pushover. He holds his own with Lady Stavely, earning her respect as "a proper man...one that knows what's o'clock, and aIn't afraid to look one in the face, and give one back as good as he gets!" And for all of Lady Stavely's irascibility, she is an endearingly shrewd character who "know[s] one point more than the devil, as they say" and is trying to ensure her granddaughter's future happiness.

My only quibble with this story is a minor one that I have with many Heyers, the silly way she describes the heroine's reaction to that first passionate kiss. Otherwise, this is a thoroughly enjoyable read that I can easily revisit time and again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars As described
Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2023
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SWAMYNATHAN C V
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on November 11, 2017
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Georgette Heyer at her best in this drama of emotions. Must read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Uno dei più belli.
Reviewed in Italy on December 4, 2015
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Tra i romanzi di Georgette Heyer, uno dei più belli e divertenti in assoluto.
Alcuni personaggi restano scolpiti nella memoria per sempre.
Letto prima o dopo 'Sylvester' è la dimostrazione di quanto magistralmente l'Autrice
sappia trattare con mano leggera ed in maniera diversa il medesimo argomento GEMELLI.
La ricostruzione, sullo sfondo, delle reali vicende nel Congresso di Vienna
costituisce la riprova della solida formazione storica della Heyer
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