Classic regency romantic comedy by Georgette Heyer, in which Frederica Merriville brings three of her younger siblings - Charis the beauty, Jeremy the nerd and Felix the irrepressible - to London to beg a favor of a distant contact: she wishes the wife of the Marquess of Alverstoke to introduce Charis into the ton so that Charis may make a brilliant match. Only the Marquess doesn't have a wife, and he hates being appealed to by "dirty dishes". But before he knows it, he's embroiled in the doings of the Merrivilles - a family with a closeness he has never known himself - and considerable comedy ensues, along with some self-enlightenment for the central characters. Not to be missed.
