Sunday, 25 November 2012

Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer


Started: Nov. 19th, 2012
Finished: Nov. 23rd, 2012
Pages: 276

By 1956, Georgette Heyer was supporting her family by her writing, was contemptuous of her fans, and was evidently a little bored.  So she'd started twisting her twisty little romantic romps to amuse herself.  In this one, the hero *doesn't* fall for the high-spirited runaway girl, even though he literally pursues her (to save herself from herself, of course) for the first two-thirds of the book.   Instead he woos a frumpy, respectable and superficially shatter-brained lady who refuses to marry him.

Don't worry, just as in a Bollywood musical, all comes right in the end.  Speaking of which, I wonder how many Bollywood films follow Heyer plots?  And if any of them do so on purpose?

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