False Colours
by Georgette Heyer
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Author: Georgette HeyerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 1402210752
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
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- ISBN13: 9781402210754
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Book Reviews of False Colours
Book Review: Amusing but not her best
Summary: 3 Stars
"False Colours" starts out on an excellent premise, an identical twin stands in for another when the first disappears under odd circumstances. He of course is very much attracted to the girl meant for the older twin. And the complications increase particularly when the girl's aunt invites herself for a visit.
This could have been a romp, punctuated by Georgette Heyer's typically incisive and well-written commentary. But, like the picture that decorates the cover of this edition, showing a singularly ill-at-ease and immature young man and a truly vapid girl at his side, this is not her best. While the hero and heroine are charming and ill-deserving of that illustration, one "lesser" character, the beautiful but totally irresponsible mother, proved such an irritant to me that she quite spoiled the story, particularly when she was rewarded for her selfish behavior. Her charm was lost on me. And I was a little surprised as Heyer does not usually treat such characters kindly and never gives them such a major role in a book.
Perhaps it was the fault of the cover! Perhaps I simply wasn't in the mood. But dearly as I enjoy my Georgette Heyers, I enjoy some far more than others. I believe what was so irritating about this book was that it is so close to being of the first water! While I don't recommend it as an introduction to the author, I still found it enjoyable and sometimes even touching.
Summary of False Colours
"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."-Publishers Weekly
A missing twin
Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher "Kit" Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mother's debts have mounted alarmingly.
A quick-minded heiress
The Fancot family's fortunes are riding on Evelyn's marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmother's approval of the match. If Evelyn fails to meet the Dowager Lady Stavely in a few days as planned, the betrothal could be off.
A fortune in the balance
When the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin (just for one night, she promises) the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kit's heart far more deeply than he'd ever anticipated with his brother's fianc?e-who might know much more about what's going on than she cares to reveal...
"A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds."
-Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. (20080520)
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