Reputation
‘If Bridgerton and Fleabag had a book baby’ Sarra Manning, perfect for fans of 'Mean Girls'
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
It is a truth universally acknowledged that girls just wanna have fun
'If Bridgerton and Fleabag had a book baby, it would be Reputation. I inhaled it in one sitting' Sarra Manning
'I had so much fun reading Reputation. It's a total blast' Louise O'Neill
A classic romcom with a Regency-era twist, for fans of Mean Girls and Bridgerton.
Abandoned by her parents in favour of a sea view, middle class Georgiana Ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. At a particularly dull dinner party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy socialite and enchanting member of the in-crowd.
Through Frances and her friends, Georgiana is introduced to a new world of wild parties, drunken debauchery, mysterious young men with strangely alluring hands, and the sparkling upper echelons of Regency society.
But high society isn't all it's cracked up to be, and the price of entry might be more than Georgiana is willing to pay . . .
Full of lavish parties, handsome men on horseback and laugh-out-loud humour, this is the summer read everyone's talking about.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Croucher's fiction debut (after self-help guide You're Crushing It) half-heartedly parodies the Regency romance genre with a tedious dark comedy centered on voracious reader Georgiana Ellers. After middle-class 20-something Georgiana's absentee parents entrust her to the care of her maternal aunt, Mrs. Burton, a bored and lonely Georgiana seizes her chance to socialize when she meets the notorious, upper-class Frances Campbell at a party. She's quickly sucked into Frances's circle of substance-abusing friends and is desperate to keep up. Happy to be accepted and enjoying her flirtation with handsome Thomas Hawksley, Georgiana turns a blind eye to the dangers of her new lifestyle, even after rakish Jeremiah Russell manipulates Frances into having sex with him, and another of Georgiana's new friends, Cecily Dugray, suffers alcohol poisoning at a party. Georgiana's obliviousness is not her only alienating quality; she also proves judgmental, rude, and easily led astray, and what little character development there is comes too little too late as Georgiana realizes the error of her ways and attempts to make last-minute amends. The casual diversity of the cast is nice, but all the usual fun trappings of Regency romance are absent here, swapped out for mean spirited humor and darkness. This misses the mark.
