These Old Shades

Brought to you by Penguin. These Old Shades is read by Alexander Vlahos, star of Versailles . Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud. Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score. When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart. Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both? ' One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS ' Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA Léonie, hot-tempered and very much her own woman, is one of Heyer's best female leads [...]The novel remains a witty, vivid page turner ' MELANIE REID 'If you haven't read her yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans 'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times © Georgette Heyer 1926 (P) Penguin Audio 2021