The Black Moth

GEORGETTE HEYERS REMARKABLE FIRST NOVEL\r\n\r\nOne of my perennial comfort authors. Heyers books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austens Joanne Harris\r\n\r\nAbsolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism SOPHIE KINSELLA\r\n\r\n______________________________\r\n\r\nDiana Beauleigh is caught between two men.\r\n\r\nSeven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since. \r\n\r\nReturning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler. \r\n\r\nWhen Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh, the two old enemies come to blows. \r\n\r\nCan Jack save the beautiful Diana from rakes, kidnap and ruin...?\r\n______________________________\r\n\r\nGeorgette Heyer is second to none Sunday Times\r\n\r\nFabulously witty Stephen Fry