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Title: A Regency Charade

Author: Elizabeth Mansfield

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A daring charade could reunite a husband and wife in award-winning author Elizabeth Mansfield's sparkling Regency romance.

After nearly losing his life at the battle of Waterloo, Captain Alexander Tyrrell, earl of Braeburn, comes home to the shocking news that he is still married. Braving enemy fire is nothing compared to having to see the duplicitous Priscilla Vickers again.

Priss has waited six years to be reunited with the man she loves. But her husband believes her guilty of the worst kind of betrayal. And nothing she says or does will convince him that Sir Blake Edmonds isn't her illicit lover. It will take a daring deception - and a scheming minx who has set her cap for Alec - for these two people to realize how much they have lost and how much they could gain if they were to find the courage to turn a sham union into a second chance for happiness.

Members Reviews:

Appalling hero.

I've been checking out old Elizabeth Mansfield books that I hadn't read back in the day. Maybe there was a reason I hadn't read this one, although I can't remember. Whatever the case, the hero of this book from 1981 wins the A$$hole of the Year (Decade? Century?) Award easily. Even Mansfield's writing can't save this one. I considered awarding it only one star.

Hero marries heroine very young. It was a marriage encouraged by the family, and our hero at the time was too young, too socially inept, too insecure about himself. He loves the heroine but is not convinced of her love for him and when he finds out that she had had an offer of marriage before his and when he finds her with that man after their wedding, he is convinced, convinced, convinced that she is unfaithful to him and wants to be married to the other man.

Naturally they don't talk about this. He won't listen to a thing she says. (Probably couldn't have heard her anyway, what with his head stuck up his you-know-what.) Just informs his solicitor that he wants the marriage dissolved, whether divorce, annulment, whatever, and he goes off to the Peninsular Wars for 6 years. Comes back thinking the marriage is over, only to find that nothing has been done and they are still married.

He continues to be an intransigent, self-absorbed jerk throughout the book but finally at the end sees the truth and--WTH!--the heroine forgives him.

Truly atrocious

The "hero" is a real a$$. On the flimsiest of grounds he decides his wife has cheated on him so he refused to talk to her, tells his solicitor to annull the marriage and joins the army (despite being his grandfather's only heir), and stays away for six years. When he gets back he finds out that he's still married but he still refuses to talk to her and instead starts going around with her young, fast, cousin, and sets up a mistress. All his friends tell him he's being an idiot, but he's convinced all women are faithless hobags, with his wife being the worst (still no evidence).

She in the meantime seems to have been standing in the window waiting for his return the entire six years, no lettersâ, no attempt to move on or anything. She only grows a spine when he finally accuses her to her face of still having an affair.