Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer

:)Īnd one intelligent, awkward, impulsive, average-looking girl with unfashionably tanned skin, a wicked wit and a habit of putting recognizable members of the ton in her novels: Comment #22 contains perhaps a better visual image. *Some of my GR friends objected to Spock as Sylvester. (I'm thinking Zachary Quinto as Spock, minus the ears.

Take one somewhat arrogant, self-assured duke with very distinctive slanted eyebrows: I'm hoping that this will be one of those GH books that I find much more charming on reread! (It does happen!) Update: Rereading in May 2019 with the GH group. Definitely worth the extra star, if only for Sylvester’s little nephew totally cracking me up several times. Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance.įinal update: upping my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars on reread. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin.

She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist.

Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer