Pastel [Hardcover]

Georgette Heyer (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Longmans, Green (1929)
• ASIN: B000NCY49S
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, "The Black Moth," published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

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72 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent novel, April 21, 2000

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Patti S. Riley (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pastel (Hardcover)

I did not appreciate Georgette Heyer's 'modern' novels and mysteries when I first discovered her in my twenties, now in my forties, I have re-read them and realized how wonderful they are. Pastel is the story of an older sister who loves her younger sister dearly but feels totally eclipsed by her personality or 'pastel' in comparison. The way she deals with her feelings and realizes her life is the one she really wants is the crux of the story. The story is very much of it's time period - no liberated women in this book, so it may seem more dated to some, but it's a worthwhile read and beautifully written.

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely the best of Heyer's contemporary novels, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pastel (Hardcover)

"Pastel" is not for people who expect the 'usual', lighthearted Heyer. It's a contemporary (1920's) novel about the intense jealousy of one sister towards another, and it deals with it in a fairly realistic manner. As such, "Pastel" is probably one of the most psychologically complex of Heyer's novels, and, in my opinion, it succeeds superbly, in realistically delineating relationships between Siblings. One of my favorite Heyer novels.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charming read, May 26, 2001

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"sorellaz" (Roermond, Limburg Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pastel (Hardcover)

Another of Georgette Heyers surpressed books, this is a charming tale, never saccharine or improbable. It tells the story of a young woman trying to reconcile her ideas of love and happiness with reality, and tells it well, our heroins insecurities making her the more endearing. Well worth the read, especially for hardened Heyer fans, her references to animals being particularly funny.