April Lady is one of my favourite Heyer novels.. though not all fans like it. It is a short novel.. and stars with a heroine who is already married to the hero. This sort of story has its limitations as the hero and heroine have to work out their differences and there is a lack of suspense. However Heyer is such a skilled writer that she can write this kind of novel and make it enjoyable.
Nell, the heroine, is a young woman who comes from an impoverished upper class family.. her brother Lord Dysart is a gambler.. and her father has had a stroke after years of over spending. Her husband Giles, Lord Cardross, is a serious man several years her senior and Nell believes that he married her in order to have an heir.. but she herself fell in love with him on first sight and desperately wants to make him fall in love with her. Giles however has actually been smitten with his bride.. but after their marriage she seems to be taken up with enjoying the fashionable lifestyle of a young married lady and is very extravagant. He is not sure if he can ever win her love. Before his marriage he had had an affair with a society hostess, Lady Orsett but he had drifted apart from her and fallen in love with Nell.
Nell knows about Lady Orsett and fears that if she shows too much affection for her husband he will become bored with her....
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