Venetia

In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate.

Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors.

Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation - the infamous Jasper Damerel.

Damerel's way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years. But he may have met his match in Venetia ...

'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris

'Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella

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