The Nonesuch

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

De: Georgette Heyer

Narrado por: James Lailey

Brought to you by Penguin.

Sir Waldo Hawkridge - wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious and known as 'The Nonesuch' for his athletic prowess - believes he is past the age of falling in love. But when he comes North to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications....

Georgette Heyer won the hearts of many worldwide enthusiasts with her peerless novels of historical romance - which continues to this day - and in The Nonesuch, all her storytelling skills are in evidence.

©1962 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Worth listening to multiple times

This is one of my favorite Heyer books, and the reader does not disappoint. Subtle, but delightful!

Excellent narrator, enjoyable story

Excellent narrator adds greatly to this gently humorous story. Despite a slow beginning, by the middle it's enjoyable to hope the appallingly selfish beauty with her temper tantrums will get her comeuppance!

Awesome

She is perfection! It is as though you are actually there seeing and hearing the action! Only gripe…her books never last long enough!

Good enough to read or listen BUT

Love the story and characters, but I want the reaction of the neighborhood characters of what happened in the end.

Excellent fun!

Loved GH’s main characters in this fun, lighthearted Regency Romance. I think if you like Pride and Prejudice, you will like this one, too.

an old favourite

this used to be one of my favourite Georgette Heyer books when I was younger but as I grew older it felt a little melodramatic.
however, I purchased this audio version based on a review that stated it had helped the reviewer see it in a different light. I didn't find that, and although the narration was good enough for me not to regret the purchase, to me, it didn't even highlight the humour sufficiently.
again, it's not a bad book but I would put it in the mediocre category with books like Cotillion, Convenient Marriage and Bath Tangle

Another GH winner

Georgia hair where so many wonderful regency books. She has a few duds, but this isn't one of them. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and will be keeping it in my Audible library. it was well read and well written.

Love

The Nonesuch is one of my favorite Heyer books. I don’t mind this narrator either.

Happily surprised w narrator

Worth purchasing this version, after listening to prior version w female narrator. I wasn’t sure if a male narrator could pull it off, but he was much easier to tolerate- and I caught several things I’d missed in the other Audible version of this book. A very enjoyable listen to Ms Heyer’s The Nonesuch.

Not my favorite

I’ve read the book but this time I went for Audible. Excellent reader, who made it much more fun and in the Heyer spirit. This is, alas, not her best plot. Her usual characters, the pretty children, the more mature couple at odds, are well drawn but the plot was weak. I still enjoyed it but it was the reader who carried me through.