Nicky's Reviews > Lady of Quality

Lady of Quality has many of the same themes and character types as Heyer's other novels, just varied a bit. For the most part Heyer had a genius for tweaking things just enough: this one is different (for example) to Sprig Muslin and Charity Girl in that it is a female protagonist who gets foolishly caught up in the tangles of an unchaperoned young girl, and the heroine has a lot of independence. Her hero is reasonably typical of her work, but I did like that despite his gruff ways and rude behaviour, he was very capable of understanding the heroine's feelings and giving her space to work them out.

I recognise a lot of this stuff from Heyer's other novels, though, which is a little sad. I hope I'm not coming to the end of my love affair with Heyer's work, with thirteen(ish?) novels left to go! But since I've read them in no particular order, that's not very likely -- and there is still something compelling about even the least of Heyer's work, from the silliest of her characters to the most rakish.