Instead of the Thorn -- Georgette Heyer

<p>From the brilliant author of detective novels and regency romances, here we have an early manifestation of her literary genius and versatility. G. Heyer masters the art of telling a story and she is telling hers with shocking brutal honesty. In this uncommon social novel one witness the clash of two eras, the fading Victorian one with its prim facade built on lies and deceits and the dawning postwar one with its disruptive nature of rebellions and challenges, as exemplified by its two heroes, Elizabeth Arden and Stephen Ramsay. When a whimsical in work but firm in his love author marries the little maiden who knows nothing about life and hides from it, discontentment and misery ensues. Elizabeth quickly fails to meet all requirements of married life while recoils from physical contact with her husband; her bucolic life in Queen's Halt becomes unbearable from where she ultimately escapes to find herself. She has an interesting esoteric quest in London, Torquay and Wood End until she acquires the wisdom and the strength to deal honestly with life and Stephen. (Midori)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the author: </strong></p><p>Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 - 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The cou