I have always been interested in this period of history and felt that this book and the way Dunn writes helps to bring history alive. I couldn’t put it down and was gutted when I finally finished it, at a loss of what to read next.’ ‘I loved this book, Jane Dunn writes with an insight into Elizabeths and Marys psyches that is mesmerising. Easy, interesting and certainly a page-turner. ‘Jane Dunn is one of our best biographers.’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times ‘Jane Dunn has written a splendid piece of popular history with the ready-pen of a highly skilled writer, endowed with remarkable insight.’ Roy Strong, Daily Mail ‘Outstanding, perceptive and delightfully readable.’ Sunday Times Books of the Year Bridgerton look out!' Melanie Reid, The Times 'Jane Dunn’s THE MARRIAGE SEASON gives all the immersive pleasure of Georgette Heyer’s brilliantly confected Regency novels, in a sublime alternative world of joy.

Janice Hadlow, Gill Hornby, and anyone with a Bridgerton-shaped hole in their lives. Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a page-turning novel packed with romance, scandal, friendship and colour. But when she finds her father at last, learns the truth about her parentage and discovers her fortunes transformed, she must quickly decide how to reveal her true identity, while hoping that one young man in particular can see her for the beauty and Lady she really is. And when she meets Alick's turbulent brother Darius, a betrayal of trust leads to deadly combat which only one of the brothers may survive.įrom gambling in gentleman’s clubs to meeting the courtesans of Covent Garden, Corinna’s country naivety soon falls away.

Travelling alone as a young woman risks scandal and danger, but when, masquerading as a youth, she is befriended by three dashing blades, handsome and capable Alick Wolfe, dandy Ferdinand Shilton and the incorrigible Lord Purfoy, Corinna now has access to the male-only world of Regency England. Her father's identity has been a tantalising mystery, but now at nineteen Corinna knows that finding him may be her only way to avoid marriage to the odious Mr Beech.ĭeciding to head to London, Corinna dons a male disguise. ‘Do you realise, Corinna, just how hard it is for a young woman of irregular birth, without family, fortune or friends in the world? Marriage is the only way to get any chance of a life.’įollowing the death of her mother, Corinna Ormesby has lived a quiet life in the countryside with her cantankerous Cousin Agnes.

An Unsuitable Heiress by Jane Dunn