The first half of the book, the writing is very Ye Olde Englishe! But when Nick & his servant, Joshua arrive in Spain the pace picks up & it becomes a much better book. I may be unromantic but I do find the main plot point Nick captures Dominica & her ailing father on the high seas & risks their lives, his ship's company & the ship itself to return Dominica & her father to Spain. Even so, my eyes used to skim over the back history. I always knew about "Simon", as it was my father's favourite book as a teen & he spent a lot of time trying to find a copy. This left Beauvallet to be read as a standalone for generations & I don't think that really worked.įor Beauvallet is a very short book & quite a bit of it covers family history. The thing is, the strong minded GH decided Simon the Coldheart wasn't up to her usual standards & had it suppressed (her son thought his mother had been too hard on it & agreed to "Simon" being republished after her death.) I'll admit I used to create fictional family trees as a child! & GH is known to have had a well developed fantasy life as a teen writing & acting in her own dramas with friends. It is too hard to reproduce the whole thing (its very wide) but here is a snippet GH took her world building very seriously - my 1937 copy of Beauvallet even has a family tree at the back. GH wrote earlier about one of buccaneer "Mad" Nick Beavallet's ancestors. I had a bit of trouble persuading the Georgette Heyer Fans Group to read this title - I must be losing my touch! :DĪlthough this book was always a 3.5-4★ read for me, I can understand why that wouldn't be the case for all readers.
Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year.
Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist.
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