Powder and Patch Author:Georgette Heyer Jane Austen touches are here combines with humor and a sure sense of character and plot to make a delightful story about Cleone, a girl with a yen for the London social life, and Philip, a young man who, to win her hand, adopts a style too fashionable even for her taste. When Cleone finds herself engages to two men, neither of whom she really wi... more »shes to marry, only Phillip can straighten out the tangle and set things to rights.« less
The heroine is so ditzy and flighty that its very hard to understand why the gentleman is still interested in her. No character development was spent on the girl - unusual for a Heyer.