Victoire [Hardcover]

Clare Darcy (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Walker & Co (May 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802704433
• ISBN-13: 978-0802704436
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,217,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a Throbbing, Pulsing or Swelling Body Part in the Book, January 28, 2003

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This review is from: Victoire (Hardcover)

There is a definite charm in a romance where no body parts throb, pulse or swell, where the heroine behaves within the limits of acceptable behavior for the period and hero is not an incipient rapist. It's not that I dislike books with more sexual content, I'm not the least prudish, but sometimes a book like Victoire just hits the spot.

Victoire is daughter of an officer who was killed fighting Napoleon when she was about 13. After her father's death her mother who was French remarried a Frenchmen who sent Victoire to live in Normandy with his mother. However, following Napoleon's abdication, the old lady had become delusional and it was necessary to send Victoire to her father's cousin, an Irish scoundrel.

But the Irish scoundrel has plans for Victoire that involve trying to separate the family of the Marquis of Tarn from a substanial sum of money. When Tarn unexpectedly returns to England and scotches this plan, the scoundrel hatches one that is even more dastardly and tries to draw Victoire into it.

A fast paced fun read with a hot tempered (uh, definitely not feisty) heroine and a young and engaging hero.