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The Transformation of Philip Jettan

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First published: 1923
Pages: 149

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About this book

Georgette Heyer first published this light Georgian comedy in 1923 under a pseudonym, and later revised it as Powder and Patch. Philip Jettan is a blunt, unfashionable young squire in rural Sussex, content with his fields and his horses and in love with his neighbour Cleone. But Cleone longs for a suitor with polish and Paris manners, so Philip, stung, sets off for France to remake himself into an accomplished beau. He returns transformed in dress and address, and the real question becomes whether the change is a gain or a loss, and whether Cleone can tell the man from the mask. Slight but charming, it shows early Heyer finding her comic voice.

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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer.