The Black Moth

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The Black Moth was written in 1921 as Georgette Heyer’s very first piece of literary art, comprising an exciting romance novel that features adventure, an exciting love story and danger at every corner. The story marked Heyer’s debut as an author, and includes many of the elements and character traits you can find in her later novels and works, offering fans a fascinating view of the author’s skills and talent while it was still in its formative years.

Heyer’s Georgian romance novel was written when she was only 19, and initially intended as a fun and interesting story to entertain her younger brother who was suffering from haemophilia.

Although The Black Moth has been pointed out as lacking Heyer’s usual ability to create complicated plots and intrigues – as readers may have seen in both her detective and romance fiction works – the novel is quite engaging, and remains a timeless tale that even modern readers can thoroughly enjoy more than 90 years after it was originally published.

The novel tells the story of Lord Jack Carstares, an English nobleman who takes the blame when his brother Richard cheats at cards, and faces social exile. After fleeing the country for a short time, Carstares returns to England under the name of Sir Anthony Ferndale.

Jack soon meets and rescues the young and beautiful Miss Diana Beauleigh as she is almost kidnapped by the Duke of Andover. But is there any hope for romance in the former Lord’s life when his past starts catching up with him?

The story is remarkably well-designed and dynamic, featuring diverse and complex characters the likes of Lavinia, Richard’s spoiled wife, and her brother, the sarcastic and manipulative Duke of Andover, who was nicknamed “The Devil” by the local society.


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