You can also take him out in public because he is perfectly dressed for any occasion: Freddy is funny, kind-hearted, reliable and easily imposed upon by a clever young woman. Much of Freddy's charm stems from the fact that Freddy is an early 19th century Bertie Wooster, only with his own unerring instincts about social life taking the place of Jeeves. My mother's collection of Heyer novels had Easter-egg-coloured covers, and I was delighted to find a copy of her edition of Cotillion, in perfect nick, in a used book shop last week.Ĭotillion is my darling because of the Honourable Frederick Standen, aka Freddy. My favourite of all Georgette Heyer's novels is Cotillion, and that is saying something, as a Heyer novel is to my adult life as a chocolate Easter egg was to my childhood. Go away to read the book and only then come back. Do not read if you have not yet read Georgette Heyer's Cotillion, aka the one in which Kitty has to marry one of her cousins in order to inherit great-uncle Matthew's loot.
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