Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire too. "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. I've read her books to ragged shreds"- Katie Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."- Publishers Weekly A novel set in Regency London and Brighton. A good introduction to Heyer's period stories." - The Booklist "Light and frothy, in the vein of the author's other Regency novels, this follows the fortunes of Miss Judith Taverner and her brother, Sir Peregrine. "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."- Sunday Telegraph To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country.īut when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest social circles, Lord Worth cannot help but entangle himself with his adventuresome wards. Perry and Judith's cousin Bernard Taverner seems always so kind and attentive, though there is little love lost between him and Worth.After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. Hence, he is always getting into trouble. At that point, Heyer had published six Georgian (that is, 18th-century) romances, four historical novels, four contemporary novels (later suppressed), and four mystery novels (plotted with the help of her lawyer husband). Judith has a younger brother named Peregrine (Perry) who is a young handsome boy with very little sense and a lot of money to spare. This initially makes Judith very angry, but she comes to appreciate it later. Worth does not permit her to marry any one of them. She gets many offers of marriage (including one from the Duke of Clarence). Judith soon becomes a sensation in London.
She takes an instant dislike to her unwilling guardian, Julian, fifth Earl of Worth, who, having met her earlier in a small town filled with bucks watching a boxing match, treats her with a familiarity reserved for loose women. Judith Taverner is a beautiful young heiress who comes to London to join high society. It has three distinctions: it is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone merely mentioned in passing.
Regency Buck is a novel written by Georgette Heyer.
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