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I have read this several times. It is always a delight to me. Now that I know the basic plot, I can read the book more slowly and appreciate the witty dialogue, the development of attachment between the characters, and the amazing way that Ms. Heyer resolves the story.

I am surprised that some readers review this book and say that Sophy is annoying. I think that she is smart, generous, loving, considerate, and lots of fun. She would not be every man's choice for a wife (as Charlbury points out), but then Charles will not be easy to live with either.

After reading Sophy I always think that this must be the best Heyer book, and then I read The Quiet Gentleman, or False Colours, or Frederica etc., and then I change my mind again about which Heyer book is best. I have found some excellent Regency Romance writers, but none are as good as Georgette Heyer.


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Grand Sophy Georgette Heyer 9780099465638 Books Reviews

I do believe this is my favorite of all Georgette Heyer's books in the regency romance genre. Sophy has had a very unique upbringing having tagged along with her father in his role of diplomat to various countries on the Continent including traveling with the army. As such, she has encountered life in its many forms and this has enabled her "managing" personality" to understand why and how different folks need her help.

When her father, Sir Horace, decides it is past time for Sophy to be introduced to a London Season, he travels to England to enlist the aid of his sister, Lady Ombersley, in order to have Sophy presented and to hopefully obtain a husband. Lady Ombersley has several of her own children to tend, a husband who thinks of little else besides his own entertainment, a younger son who is in the suds for gaming, a daughter who is in love with a frivolous poet, an older son, Charles, who has had no other choice but to take over the management and the purse strings of the family and who has had to be the "adult" to say "no" to anything frivolous and endeavor to keep his siblings out of their various follies. Needless to say, Lady Ombersley is in over her head trying to keep peace among her own family.

But... help is soon to arrive in the persona of the "Grand Sophy" and she is indeed grand. From the moment, she arrives on the scene, she takes over everyone's life without actually stepping on anyone's toes - well, except for the staid Charles' toes, that is. Sophy is one of the most fascinating heroines in this genre. She has wisdom, tact, honor and she can stand head to head and toe to toe with the tyrannical Charles. When she realizes he is engaged to a strait-laced, tattle tale, young woman, she eventually decides she must stick her nose into his affairs even while she is sorting out the rest of the family.

Lovely book, lovely romance. This is the best of the rest!
I bought the audio book for my long commutes. I have ordered and listened to many in the past but this one far exceeded my hopes! My attention was grabbed immediately. It made me laugh and grimace and, in all honesty, I hated having to get out of the car during this memorable story. I considered bringing it in and listening to it at home but I just didn't want it to end!

It's a story about an amazing and self-possessed young woman, Sophy, in the ranks of the English nobility. Through her father, she's learned self-preservation and an incorrigible boldness that is unusual during that long-ago period. Sophy encounters many circumstances in which her skill at diplomacy and her verve help the family members she's come to reside with, while her father is abroad.

I truly laughed and smiled, frowned and cheered her on throughout! FANTASTIC STORY! I'm here to hopefully find another by Georgette Heyer!
Love her. The grand sophie could have had a near infinite series of books describing her good faith manipulations of all and sundry. The last book would be her ruthlessly organizing the lives of her descendants from her deathbed.

One caveat Heyer has a Shakespearean Shylock-style moneylender included in the plot. The description has wince-worthily anti-semitic implications, but brief, merely a footnote in the plot. (Although similar stuff from Shakespeare ruined his works for me. During my early teens, Taming of the Shrew resulted in a drywall dent from hurling the collected works. )

Georgette Heyer is one of the best dialogue writers I've ever read. I didn't realize, until the fifth or sixth book, how little explication she uses. Almost everything is revealed through conversation and context. So difficult to do, but she pulls it off every time!

Superfan.
I have read this several times. It is always a delight to me. Now that I know the basic plot, I can read the book more slowly and appreciate the witty dialogue, the development of attachment between the characters, and the amazing way that Ms. Heyer resolves the story.

I am surprised that some readers review this book and say that Sophy is annoying. I think that she is smart, generous, loving, considerate, and lots of fun. She would not be every man's choice for a wife (as Charlbury points out), but then Charles will not be easy to live with either.

After reading Sophy I always think that this must be the best Heyer book, and then I read The Quiet Gentleman, or False Colours, or Frederica etc., and then I change my mind again about which Heyer book is best. I have found some excellent Regency Romance writers, but none are as good as Georgette Heyer.