In Cotillion, Heyer’s particular brand of Regency music reaches the heights of perfection. Like an audience at a concert that has been performed in other music halls, we are interested in how this new orchestration of a well-known arrangement will compare to the others. We WANT the familiarity of Georgette Heyer’s typical characters, for they play off each other so well. The list of Heyer archetypes goes on and on, but we don’t care. Beautiful but vapid beauty in distress? Check.Long-suffering but pleasantly surprised father? Check.Eccentric, old and tight-fisted uncle? Check.In Cotillion we meet a veritable bevy of the typical Heyer characters: Heyer’s books is discovering which of her stereotypical characters will court or insult each other in that ironic British upper class way we Heyer fans have come to love. It’s been years since I’ve run across the word “clodpole”, which Georgette Heyer uses to great effect in Cotillion, one of the splendid Regency romance novels that Sourcebooks had brought out and is available for order, including as an E-book, in this link.
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