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Black Sheep | 
 enlarge | Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 20787
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1402210787
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781402210785
ASIN: 1402210787
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.
Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his family- enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, disconcertingly blunt and brash. But he turns out to be Abbie's most important ally in keeping her niece out of trouble.
But how can he possibly be considered eligible when she has worked so hard to rebuff his own nephew's suit for her niece? And how can she possibly detach from an ailing sister who needs her? This is a heroine who has to be, literally, swept off her feet . . . (20080505)
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Mature Woman vs. Ingenue November 17, 2008
Being a woman of certain age, I am not into romance novels featuring ingenues anymore. Even with Ms Heyer's books, I prefer the ones featuring "older" women than 18-year-olds.
I read both Lady of Quality and Black Sheep back to back. I must say that I like Black Sheep more. First of all, the contrast of what love means to a 17-year-old and to a 28-year-old is so funny and right on that I could not help but chuckle whenever Fanny (ingenue) declared her undying love for Stacy the cad. The conversations between Abby (Mature Woman) and Miles (Hero) are also full of humor and word play. Their verbal sparring is never tiresome and always witty. Ms Heyer deserved to be compared to Jane Austen.
LOVE THIS BOOK... November 2, 2008
I've been reading my way through Heyer's works. This and "These Old Shades" are my favorites so far. Some of the most enjoyable books I have read in a few years! Comedies of manners are SO difficult to get right, but she does. The comparison to Jane Austen is spot-on and I would not say that lightly. Very highly recommended. "Cotillion" is very good too. I look forward to reading more of Heyer's books.
Oh my! October 2, 2008
What a fabulous book. I grow very tired of reading romance novels where every second sentence is telling of how the hero or heroine's body parts are reacting to each other. This was such a refreshing change. Just pure romance and no lust. I won't go into the plot because others have. I just want to say that the dialogue in the story is fantastic. The characters are entertaining and the story is always fresh. You can't possibly skim one paragraph because you would miss so many charming details. Just don't read this book when you are tired. The language in the book takes a little bit of mental translation.
This is my first novel by Georgette Heyer. I'm so happy that there are so many more to read by her. If you're a fan of Jane Austen you will love Georgette Heyer.
Black Sheep June 4, 2008
I had read some of Georgette Heyer's books when I was a teen-ager. Somehow I found this book in a bookstore and I bought it right away. One of the reasons I hadn't read Georgette Heyer for a long time is her heroes are always so much older than the heroines, that said I was pleasantly surprised with this book as Abigail is a matured woman and the relationshop between her and the hero is believable and is between equals.I just loved the book and recommend it highly. This book shows how you can write a romance story without the book mentioning even the word 'sex'.
I wish Georgette Heyer had written more books!!!!!!!!!!
 Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? May 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are two bad boys here, both of them Calverleighs, but the younger, Stacey, is really bad. He's a fortune-hunter who is trying to con Fanny, a young heiress, into an elopement. The older, Miles, is Stacey's uncle, lately returned from his banishment to India, twenty years before, for trying to elope with Celia, who later became Fanny's mother!
But Miles had really loved his Celia, unlike Stacey, who doesn't care a bit for Fanny. Then there is Abby, Fanny's aunt, who is only 28 but acting as her guardian. Abby has to try to extricate Fanny from Stacey's lures, but since she is falling under the spell of the extremely funny Miles, it's a difficult task.
This book has some of Heyer's funniest dialog. Although very similar to her last novel, "Lady of Quality" (also a whopping good read), this one stands on its own and is well worth reading. And rereading. And so on. I've read it many times in the past 40 years, and it still makes me laugh. The ending is marvelous, and all the resolutions perfect in their way!
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