the convenient marriage by georgette heyer

Although set in the Georgian period, Rule resembles some of her Regency heros like Alverstoke. Yet as soon as Rule meets her, he is taken with her. She is not the beauty of the family, and has a stammer and a lot of stubbornness. While I don't usually like the 35 year old marrying the 17 year old, it worked here. While this isn't my favorite of her books, the narrator is one of the best. The Heyer books in general are my favorite comfort food on audio. Where does The Convenient Marriage rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Also, she handled Horry's stuttering quite well, which could have turned out to be annoying, but wasn't. Caroline Hunt narrated the book very, very well, giving each character a distinctive voice. He is more observant of the appropriateness of their actions, were they to be brought to the notice of society, though he's still just foolish enough (such as getting drunk with Pel) that you can see how they'd be good friends. For example, Pommeroy is Pel's best friend, but he's not exactly like Pel. I liked that the characters were all fairly unique and interesting. In the scenes when they incorporated Pel's brother-in-law in their attempts to save Horry from a potential scandal, it was hilarious.

During the last 30 minutes or so of this audiobook, I was laughing uproariously many times at things they said and did, though they were entertaining at several other points in the book, too.

The funniest moments in this book (as far as what I remember right at this moment) occur in scenes that involve Horry's brother, Viscount Pelham Winwood and his friend, Sir Roland Pommeroy. He can defend himself (and the woman he loves) in a duel, but yet he has all the manners and style of his station. Her husband, the Earl of Rule, is amusing (in a dry, ironic way), brave, and I think that he's almost perfect as a romantic hero in a book of this genre. Her character has some nice growth and arc over the course of the story, and I could easily forgive some of her early silly, less circumspect behavior because of the person she becomes by the end of the novel.

He tries to reason with her and manage her in such a way that she won't become even more willful and stubborn than she naturally is. I like that her husband doesn't try to force her into behaving in a prudent, socially acceptable manner just because she has to. Horry (short for Horatia), as a character, is very endearing, funny, and devoted to the best interests of her family.

The convenient marriage by georgette heyer