![]() ![]() ![]() This would be his final jacket for Heyer. The 1953 Heinemann first edition with the jacket designed by Philip Gough. Unbeknowns to Freddy, however, Kitty has her sights set on Jack, but Heyer’s love of comic irony means that her heroine’s path to true love is anything but smooth. Freddy is the kindest of Kitty’s likely suitors and so, when his country cousin begs him to pretend to be engaged to her so that she may escape from her penny-pinching old guardian and enjoy a month in London, Freddy reluctantly agrees. This outrageous scenario prompts four very different reactions from Kitty’s potential bridegrooms: Hugh, the rather pompous rector, is willing to marry his cousin Dolphington, the “impoverished Irish Earl”, is reluctant but compelled by his overbearing mother to offer for Kitty Jack, that handsome, dashing blade intends to win the fortune but refuses to be pushed into marriage and Freddy, whose family thinks him a fool, is oblivious to his great-uncle’s plan and arrives late on the scene. ![]() The miserly Mr Pencuik is guardian to the orphaned Kitty Charing and he has decided that his ward shall only inherit his fortune if she marries one of his four great-nephews. “So I’ve settled that one of you shall have her, and my fortune into the bargain.” Great-Uncle Matthew Penicuik. ![]()
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