5/21/2023 0 Comments Venetia by Georgette Heyer![]() Only the year before, Lord Damerel made a rare appearance at the Priory accompanied by several ramshackle bucks and three ‘shameless lightskirts squealing fit to bring the rafters down and egging on the gentlemen to behave in a very scandalous way, they were turning the house into a gambling den, and drinking the cellar dry.’ The estate, has slid into near dereliction: the woods are over-grown and the land badly neglected and his once handsome fortune has shrunk to almost nothing. We meet Damerel when he’s thirty-eight at his home, the Priory. It takes him much of the book to realize that its a role he’s outgrown.Ĭover by Arthur Barbosa for ‘Venetia’ by Georgette Heyer, 1958 He had had a difficult childhood with cold, censorious, unloving parents which turned him into dissolute libertine and a man who allows himself to be cast as a villain by others. Lord Damerel’s journey from a cynical rake, gambler, drinker and profligate to a man who is worthy of the heroine, Venetia, is a long, thorny path with many twists and turns. It was one of Georgette Heyer’s own favourites, she called it (and The Unknown Ajax) ‘the best of my later works’. ![]() ![]() Georgette Heyer’s Venetia was first published in 1958 and it is one of the books I turn to when things are difficult. ![]()
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