![]() ![]() She knows that Rule wants to marry into her distinguished family, knows that he does not love Lizzie, and therefore reasons that one Winwood sister will do him as well as another. However, her youngest sister Horry, ever the pragmatist, sees a solution. She’s in love with an impoverished lieutenant, Edward Heron, but knows she must marry money to save the family from the financial ruin threatened by the gambling and extravagances of their brother Pelham. But far from being pleased with such a catch, Lizzie is miserable. The novel actually begins with Rule just having offered for, and been accepted by, Elizabeth Winwood, the oldest and prettiest of the three Winwood sisters. They make an unlikely couple, and as the title suggests, their union is one of convenience. 17-year-old Horatia Winwood (Horry), is short, plain, heavy-browed and has a stammer, while the 35-year-old Earl of Rule is handsome, experienced and wealthy. It starts, unusually, with the marriage of the hero and heroine. But like all of her historical romances, it’s witty and warm, well-researched, and tells an engaging, if predictable, story with her characteristic light touch. After his readings of Sylvester and Venetia, two of Heyer’s popular Regency romances, has now recorded an abridged version of The Convenient Marriage for Naxos.įirst published in 1934, just before Heyer embarked on the first of her Regency novels, The Convenient Marriage is set earlier than the Regency, in 1776. ![]()
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