A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Read the most captivating historical debut of the year!
‘[A] scintillating, swash-buckling debut… terrifically fun’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Sharp, modern and absolutely delicious’ TAYLOR JENKINS REID
‘Fans of Bridgerton will swoon’ NITA PROSE
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Love is not required…
She’s got just twelve weeks to find a rich husband and save her sisters – and she must use every ounce of cunning and ingenuity she possesses to climb London society if she is to succeed.
The only person she can’t fool is Lord Radcliffe, who sees straight through her plans, and is determined to stop her at any cost.
There is not a day to lose and no one – not even a lord – will stand in her way…
Readers LOVE A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting:
‘Like Bridgerton, but better’ *****
‘The best book I have read in a long time’ *****
‘Sassy, outrageous and bingeable’ *****
‘MUST READ’ *****
‘LOVED it!’ *****
‘Sophie Irwin is going to be an author to watch’ *****
‘An utter delight of a book’ *****
‘Great fun and hugely entertaining’ *****
‘What a charming book, absolutely loved it’ *****
‘Witty and it delivers on everything you’d hope’ *****
‘I inhaled this book … a charming, blissful story’ *****
Sophie Irwin's book 'A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 09-05-2022.
About the author
Sophie Irwin’s first novel, A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Sophie grew up in Dorset before moving to south London. She has spent years immersed in studying historical fiction, from a dissertation on how Georgette Heyer helped win World War Two, to time spent in dusty stacks and old tomes losing herself in Regency London researching this book.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Newly jilted and with just 12 weeks to save her family from financial ruin after her father’s untimely death, Kitty Talbot heads where she knows she’s most likely to find her fortune: the London season. An unashamed pursuit of a rich husband is not traditionally the sort of storyline that makes the average reader root for a main character, but at least Kitty has understandable logic behind her less than pure intentions. Irwin skilfully builds an early 1800s’ London that feels historically yet also winningly familiar—from Kitty and her sister Beatrice’s strolls through Hyde Park to her glamorous aunt’s home in Wigmore Street. The dialogue is sharp and funny, and though headstrong Kitty is ruthless, she is ultimately motivated by the love of and worry for her sisters. A lovely work of escapism that arrives at exactly the right time for Bridgerton fans.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Irwin's sparkling debut, set in Regency-era England, a young woman's plans to marry into wealth get derailed when the brother of her would-be beau catches on to her scheme. After Kitty Talbot's fiancé calls off their engagement, she needs to find a new way to pay off the debts she and her four sisters inherited after the deaths of their parents. With dwindling funds, Kitty and her sister Cecily travel from Dorsetshire to London to stay with their aunt Dorothy, a widowed former actor. There, Kitty sets her sights on the moneyed Archibald de Lacy, but his brother Lord Radcliffe soon arrives in town and, recognizing Kitty's motives, tries to prevent an engagement between her and Archie. Radcliffe is taken by surprise when Kitty promises to stop pursuing Archie if Radcliffe introduces her to high society so that she might meet a new suitor. He agrees, but quickly realizes that there's more to Kitty than he first assumed, and the attraction between them deepens. Irwin's zippy narrative is enhanced by the wry banter between Kitty and Radcliffe (" ‘Perhaps I ought to compile a suitable list,' said thoughtfully, ‘of gentlemen rich enough to satisfy you and yet so lacking in moral character that I feel no guilt about unleashing you upon them' "). Jane Austen fans will be charmed.
