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Title: The Heiress Companion
Author: Madeleine Robins
Narrator: Ione Butler
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-22-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Romance, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Rowena Cherwood did not go around boasting of it, but she had a tidy legacy from her parents. Free to choose the life she wanted, and unwilling to live with her overbearing aunt, she accepted a position as Lady Bradwell's companion.
A spinster of twenty-seven, Rowena gave little thought to marriage - until Lyn Bradwell, Lady Bradwell's long absent son, returned to England. Love was the last thing on Rowena's mind - or Lyn's. But Lady Bradwell, impatient for her companion's happiness and her son's, wondered how long it would be before her companion and her son would open their eyes.
Editorial Reviews:
The Heiress Companion is a down-to-earth society romance, narrated in a refined British lilt by Ione Butler, that deftly describes three interwoven love stories between Lords and Ladies and lonely spinsters and handsomely men who may or may not be available.
Like all good society stories, there is plenty of pining, passion, subtle sideways glances, misunderstandings, resolutions, and the capturing of the ever-elusive love that these characters seek.
Members Reviews:
Four Stars
I didn't enjoy this as much as the Sarah Tolerence series. A bit lightweight.
if you like Georgette Heyer, you'll like this
If you like Georgette Heyer, you'll like this. Conversely, if you like this book and you don't know Georgette Heyer then your next book purchase needs to be The Grand Sophy. Nobody is quite able to imitate Georgette Heyer's classic historical romances with their authentic banter, humour, strong heroines and ridiculous social conundrums but this book makes a good stab at it.
Well-done!
A nice story, well-told. Good for a cozy read. Nicely drawn characters and interesting plots.
Sweet
I thought this was an enjoyable romance. The characters had a nice rapport and the love story developed sweetly. Even the stumbling block at the end seemed reasonable for the era.
A Frothy Confection of a Regency Romance
This novel of Regency England is a Book View Cafe ebook version of a book circa 1981, and would be called a Sweet Regency Romance in 2011. Robins' skills as a writer continue to grow.
This is another frothy confection of a Regency romance. This time the plot is a little different from anything else I remember seeing, about a young woman who hasn't found a man she wishes to marry and also can't stomach remaining in the home of her aunt and uncle, who would really rather she'd marry an admiring nobleman and stop behaving in such an outlandish manner. But orphaned Rowena Cherwood is not any miss - she has both a comfortable inheritance and a history of following the drum, her diplomat father and his wife dragging her through Europe and the colonies as her introduction to life.
Too intelligent and creative to marry to oblige her relatives, wealthy enough to suit herself, but with no desire to hire companions and either plant herself in London or try Europe hemmed in by a pack of females to give her countenance, Rowena finds an invalid noblewoman in need of a companion. Being needed suits her, and Lady Bradwell is in great need of both support and protection, having survived scarlet fever by the skin of her teeth.
But the Regency world was very small for women, and into it drops her charming niece Margaret, fleeing her mother's heavy-handed attempts to marry Margaret off to the same nobleman Rowena had refused seven years earlier.
