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The Marriage Season
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
'Brilliant, sparkling and very clever' Elizabeth Buchan
‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’
In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in time for the Season to begin.
Once ensconced at the Mayfair home of Lady Godley, Lucie’s godmother, the whirl of balls, parties and promenades can begin. But the job of finding a husband is fraught with rules and tradition. Jostling for attention are the two lords – the charming and irresistible Freddie Lynwood and the preternaturally handsome Valentine Ravenell, their enigmatic neighbour from Shotten Hall, Mr Brabazon, and the dangerous libertine Lord Rockliffe, with whom the brooding Brabazon is locked in deadly rivalry.
Against the backdrop of glamorous Regency England, Sybella must settle Lucie’s future, protect her own reputation, and resist the disreputable rakes determined to seduce the beautiful widow. As the Season ends, will the sisters have found the rarest of things – a suitable marriage with a love story to match?
Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a thrilling novel packed with surprising revelations, which all comes wittily, gloriously, good in the end. Perfect for fans of Gill Hornby, Janice Hadlow, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and anyone with a Bridgerton-shaped hole in their lives.
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- Sarah
- 07-06-24
A bit boring
A good chaste story but it gets boring. No actual plot no dram. its pretty much the characters day to day life. They wake up they do this they do that they sleep another day and much of the same.
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- cags
- 30-05-24
A lovely, whimsical story
The story was good, with moments of great humour . Narrator was superb. A happy ending which was beautiful
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- BookLover
- 01-02-23
wonderfully engrossing
I rationed myself to a chapter each night and went to bed full of anticipation and delight. This story is an absolute delight, historically authentic and no bodices are ripped before marriage! Two country sisters, Sybella and Lucie, go to London for the Season. Sybella, a young widow, whose Hussar husband was killed in the Napoleonic War, thinks she has had her chance of love but wishes to find a suitable husband for her beloved sister. Fun and games, and some unexpected dangers, then ensue. There are young raffish lords, older cynical men, a determined rake, devoted papa, horse-mad child and a fairy godmother. A shocking matter of life and death intervenes.
It's so well read it transports the listener to the colourful, rumbustious Regency where family and money matters, friendships are made and love and marriage is the goal of the women, pleasure the preoccupation of the men. Full of wit and romance and fascinating historical detail, Ruth Redman's warm and flexible voice captures so well this colourful world and the charming, distinctive characters you feel you know and love them - and are sad to leave their company and their times when her narration comes to the end. Bravo!
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- H.A.B.
- 12-04-23
Most enjoyable…
For once an author who stays clean of pre-marriage bunteres between the sheets
Charming story which also includes the problem of society towards Homosexuality and how it was handled in those days …
All without steaming sex scenes which so many other authors fabricate in their books
I shall look out for more books by #janedunn
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- Cee
- 25-09-24
Descriptions of the dress and customs of the time
Likeable characters. Slightly different twist on the love interests. Final outcome fairly obvious but no worse for that!
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- Mammoth9119
- 19-01-24
the marriage season
better written than most of the genre. Enjoyable and pleasant. Well Done all. Jane Dunn is name to follow.
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- Sue h
- 17-04-24
Loved it
This book was everything you could ask for in a Recency romance. The attention to detail the brooding hero and unsure heroine combined with the extra
pleasure of the additional happiness of Lucy.
The detail of clothes, rules and regulations of those times were brought to life so well. I only wish that I had been alive and rich enough to go to Vauxhall Gardens , the descriptions and details in novels draws me in.
The narrator was superb.
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- Mo Bass
- 26-02-23
Enjoyable
No sex, violence or intense angst. The amount of hand kissing is extraordinary but the characters are well drawn. The book would have been more enjoyable with a better narrator.
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- REM
- 16-04-24
Very good.
Thoroughly enjoyed this story. Going to look for more Jane Dunn stories. Narrated brilliantly.
Lewis
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- dakinijones
- 11-03-24
Fun romance with lots of historical details
I really enjoyed the use of lots of period slang and historical details to give the story context - even though the behaviour of the characters was far from typical for the period. But if it had been too accurate it would have been a far less enjoyable story. That said, for those who like a spicy story, you won’t find our heroines having sex outside marriage so look elsewhere for that kind of tale. But you will find feisty heroines, dashing heroes who are rescued from their flaws by those heroines whilst doing a little rescuing in return. Also many fine horses, a a toddler obsessed with said horses, the obligatory villain and some bees.
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