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The Toll-gate (Paperback)

by Georgette Heyer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099476363
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099476368
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"* "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to." - Katie Fforde * "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." - Margaret Drabble * "A writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph * "Sparkling" - Independent on Sunday"

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Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet 'Crazy' Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain. But when he finds himself lost and benighted at an unmanned toll-house in the Pennines, his soldiering days suddenly pale away besides an adventure - and romance - of a lifetime.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Toll-Gate, 16 Nov 2005
This is classic Georgette Heyer, gentle and terribly well mannered with a typically spirited heroine. John is a worthy suiter and the eventual outcome is pretty obvious from the start. However the many twists in the plot and the immaculate attention to period speech and costume are as wonderful as ever. I've read over forty of her fifty or more published works and this would creep in at about number 10. Try it, then try The Grand Sophy, in my opinion the incomparable Heyer at her finest.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Georgette Heyer so far., 1 Aug 2001
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This was the second Georgette Heyer I read, having been given an old copy by my Aunt. Being very tall myself I identified with the heroine Nell and fell in love with John. Their romance and the background mystery made the whole book a delight.
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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a great quiet georgette heyer, 24 Mar 2001
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I've always liked and often loved Georgette Heyer's books. They have main characters with a full personalities and the dialogue speaks for itself. I'm buying this one again as my other copy is an old tattered second-hand one.
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