The Toll-Gate
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre.
Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.
When the Captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance, of a lifetime...
© Georgette Heyer 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Customer Reviews
Review
I love this book. Unfortunately the narrator seems angry and the narrative forced and sharp. The main character is a large quiet man, powerful and used to command. Constantly shouting at people and being aggressive does not ring true at all.
Not relaxing.