The Unknown Ajax: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
By (Author) Georgette Heyer
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
6th January 2005
6th January 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Family life fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
823.912
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 22mm
247g
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent.
"Georgette Heyer is unbeatable" -- India Knight "Sparkling" Independent "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours" -- Margaret Drabble
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 fifteen 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.