Cotillion
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch.
Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews.
However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement.
But the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all...
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times
'One of my favourites . . . a clever subversion of a romantic trope, with a typically ingenious Heyer-style heroine, a marvellously Wodehouse-ish hero. To be read in the bath, with scented candles burning' Joanne Harris
© Georgette Heyer 1953 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Customer Reviews
Oh dear
The accents. So, so, so bad. Dolphinton, an Earl, sounds like he just left the peat bog. Yes, I know he’s an Irish Earl, but that’s just where his main estates are and, given that Ireland was part of the UK at the time, it would be like giving the Duke of Devonshire an “ooo arrr” accent. Miss Plimstock, a middle class woman, could walk into the cast of East Enders with no questions asked and Miss Fish would NEVER get a job as a governess with the accent she’s given. Camille veers from stage French to faux-Indian. It’s grim, grim, grim, grim, grim.
It would also be useful if the narrator had been able to read ahead a little before recording - just to the end of the sentence so. That there. Weren’t any odd. Gaps. And pauses.
And the recording quality wasn’t great, the sound levels varied rather a lot, even during paragraphs, to the extent that I was surprised the engineer allowed his name in the credits.
Honestly, unless you’re desperate to hear the unabridged version, don’t buy this. Get someone to read it to you. Or read it aloud yourself. It’s truly awful.