Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
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Overview: The year is 1586 and 35-year-old Sir Nicholas Beauvallet (great great great grandson of Simon Beauvallet, Simon the Coldheart) is one of the most infamous pirates of the Elizabethan era. With the blessing of the Queen, Beauvallet sails the seas with the intention of plundering any Spanish ships that come his way. It is while thus occupied that he meets and falls in love with Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva. He returns Doña Dominica and her father to Spain and vows that he will come back to claim her with total disregard of the danger that the Spanish Inquisition poses to a Protestant in a Catholic land
Georgette Heyer is best known for her Regency novels and Golden Age mysteries. But she she did just as outstanding a job in bringing other periods to life. A stellar example of this is Beauvallet, an Elizabethan historical tale. The story is rousing, and the characterizations display the deftness for which Heyer is justly famous. Heyer has such a gift for using language contemporary to the period – not dumbing down the vocabulary for her readers, but leading them into English as her characters would have used it, and being so very unapologetic for it. That may make it a little difficult to read at first, but it’s well worth the effort. Her ability to describe a scene is without equal; one smells the gunpowder, feels the horse flying along a dusty road. This lesser known of her books deserves as much praise as the others.
Genre: Historical novel
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