The Talisman Ring

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Summary: A brilliant witty romance with superb characters
Review: this is in my opinion georgette heyers best novel. each time i read i enjoy it as much as i did the first time. characters like Ludovic Lavenham and Eustacie de Vauban are young, impetuous and obviously made for each other. Sir Hugh Thane is a great character, amusing and never really knowing or caring what is going on around him. Even though he is a justice of the peace he seems by far more interested at whether Ludovic(a smuggler and also Lord Lavenham) can smuggle him some brandy. then there is of course his sister, Sarah who immediately befriends Eustacie and pledges to help them all she can in the thrilling, funny, romantic adventure that she finds herself caught up in. Of course Ludovics cousin Sir Tristram also becomes irrevocably bound in the fight to clear Ludovics name.

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Summary: Great Slipped Disk Comfort
Review: This was one of the Heyer's I used to convert my family to her fan club. I read this one to my mother as she lay abed for weeks with 2 slipped disks. Something that can entertain a person in those circumstances is no trifling work! (Note: if you can find a like-minded person, many of Heyer's books are excellent for reading aloud, if you can keep from laughing long enough.)


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Summary: The Talisman Ring
Review: Those new to Georgette Heyer, as well as her devoted fans, will be riveted to this, one of her best novels. As always, the characters are well drawn, and the element of mystery will keep readers turning the pages long after their bedmates have gone groaning to sleep, covering their heads with their pillows. As a life-long Georgette Heyer fan, I thank my lucky stars this novel has been reissued so that her work can begin to find the audience it has always deserved.

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Summary: A welcome change!
Review: Unlike a lot of the other romance novels out there about innocent virgins somehow attaching themselves to rich, powerful, AND handsome dukes, this book shows no such pretensions in the characters. The journey this book takes you on is adventurous, romantic, and peppered with danger throughout. I liken Georgette Heyer's writing to Barbara Cartland.

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Summary: Heyer at her brilliant best
Review: Volatile survivor of the French terror Eustacie desires a romantic husband but her dying grandfather has chosen a decidedly unromantic man. She decides it would have been better to go to Madame Gioulltine, but instead runs away into the night into the arms of a dashing and handsome nobleman turned smuggler. Her happiness at stake, Eustacie and her new friend Sarah Thane will stop at nothing to clear his name.

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Summary: hmmm
Review: Well, this is not as much fun as "These Old Shades" but it's good fun. It's got all the ingredients.. romance, a dashing hero,, a smart heroine, mystery, suspense and humour. There is a murder, and no one knows who done it. and theres the missing talisman. and somewhere thers the heir being suspected of foul play.