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One of best-known and most beloved historical novelists will capture a whole new audience in a stunning repackage.

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The Earl of Spenborough has always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter Serena is one thing, but quite another is leaving Serena's fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham -- a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give or withhold his consent to any marriage she might contemplate. When Serena and her lovely young stepmother Fanny decide to move to Bath, Serena makes an odd new friend and discovers an old love, Major Hector Kirkby. Before long, Serena, Fanny, Kirkby, and Rotherham are entangled in a welter of marriage and manners the like of which even Regency Bath has rarely seen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Headstrong heroine, 10 May 2010

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This review is from: Bath Tangle (Paperback)

The Earl of Spenborough has died leaving a young widow and a daughter, Lady Serena Carlow. Serena is still single at 25 in spite of a fortune, because she jilted the Marquis of Rotherham almost at the altar. It is that same Marquis - a friend of her late father - who is now the trustee of Serena's fortune and the person who must approve of whoever she decides to marry. Forced to move out of her childhood home to make way for her cousin who now holds the title, Serena and Fanny, her father's young widow, set up home together first at the dower house and later in Bath.

What follows is a complete tangle - as the title says - with some very ill assorted couples and a great many misunderstandings before everyone finally find happiness. I loved all the characters, from the shy and timid Fanny to the headstrong Serena and the irascible Marquis. But the best of them is probably the vulgar Mrs Floore who has no qualms in calling a spade a spade and fully understands the ways of society even if she is not prepared or able to conform to them. The way she vanquishes her daughter - the unpleasant and impecunious Lady Laleham - is brilliant and well worth reading more than once.

`Bath Tangle' is an excellent example of Georgette Heyer at her best. There is wit and sparkle aplenty with a heroine who is the opposite of a shrinking violet. If you have not read any of this author before this would be a good one to start with as it is marvellously enjoyable.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A mature romance, 18 Mar 2001

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This is a slight oddity amongst Georgette Heyer's books, in that the hero isn't 'on stage' much, and at the end of it (though it's very satisfying) one has some doubts that he and the heroine can possibly manage to stop fighting long enough to settle down to married life! However, the heroine is a terrific character, and the basic premise of the book, i.e. what happens when a peer dies without a male heir and his family are shoe-horned out of their stately home by a distant and far less worthy relative, is a fascinating one, handled with great insight and sympathy. One of the things I love about Heyer is the skill with which she fleshes out her characters, giving them faults along with their good qualities and developing her plots from their foibles with perfect logic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Typically Feisty, 15 Nov 2007

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Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Heyer specialises in historical romance, but what I like most about her work is that her heroines are never really milksops. They all have spine, and in this book there is spine aplenty! The heroine dominates here, so much so that there is at times little room for a hero. Having said that, it is delightful. Set in Bath, an epicentre of Regency Britain, it combines all the lovely detail of Jane Austen with all the fierceness of a Bronte heroine, written with the humour and brio of a twentieth century woman. She never makes you feel that her characters are out of place, rather that you have been allowed a sneaky look into the lives of real people with tempers and problems and dilemmas. This book also deals with the tricky issue of what to do with an older heroine, no longer of marriageable age, who clearly knows her own mind.

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