Hero may be young and naïve, but Sherry is only a few years older and no more mature. It will be a marriage of convenience only, but even this is so much more than Hero could ever have hoped for that she has no hesitation in accepting. Hero is under no illusions that Sheringham – or Sherry, as he is known – is actually in love with her she knows that he needs to marry in order to receive his inheritance and that he has already been rejected by the beautiful Isabella Milborne. As an orphan treated as a poor relation in her cousin’s household, Hero’s marriage prospects are not good and she is facing a future as a governess when she receives a surprise proposal from her childhood friend, Lord Sheringham. “Friday’s child is loving and giving” says the famous rhyme and that is how the heroine of the novel, seventeen-year-old Hero Wantage, is described by her friends. It’s still an entertaining read in the twenty-first century too and although it hasn’t become a favourite, I did enjoy it. This Heyer novel was published in 1944 and as it’s a particularly lively and humorous one, I expect it provided her wartime readers with some welcome escapism.
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