The Wicked Godmother

M. C. Beaton

Canvas, 2013 - Fiction - 200 pages

A House for the Season, number 67 is rented by beautiful young Harriet Metcalf, whose charge is to get two 18-year-old heiresses sucessfully launched in the London ton. Instead, the country-mouse godmother finds herself being courted by a notorious rake, the Marquess of Huntingdon, and his equally flamboyant friend, Lord Veremuch to the annoyance of the spoiled twins. Harriet's attempts to proffer the girls' charms fail, and her own interests are aided by the eccentric and resourceful servants of Clarges Street. Chesney, author of the Six Sisters series, sets a lively tempo, moving admittedly familiar events and characters to a pleasingly predictable conclusion.

About the author

M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries, and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wicked Godmother; Volume 3 of A House for the Season, M. C. Beaton
• Author: M. C. Beaton
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Canvas, 2013
• ISBN: 1780333072, 9781780333076
• Length: 200 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General