But Mr Penicuik’s secret memories of Kitty’s mother, the Frenchwoman Desirée, have determined that he will leave his fortune to Kitty if, and only if, she marries one of his nephews. Freddy Standen because she knows she can trust him to help her escape from her eccentric guardian’s house to embrace the opportunities and pleasures of life with a month in London. Freddy is perfectly willing to help Kitty find a way to improve her situation, for she has been left on his uncle Mr Penicuik’s hands after the death of her father, and he has a mighty stingy way of conducting his affairs, expecting Kitty and her chaperone Miss Fishwick to exist on short commons and no unnecessary expenditure, such as a fire in the bedroom in winter, or a new dress in more than five years. Orphaned Kitty Charing pretends to be engaged to the Hon. It’s also one of the Heyers in which the nobody enters the rich family and shows their quality by the performance of their values. Cotillion is a domestic Heyer, one that focuses on economics and expenditure as metaphors for character. However, it is absolutely one of my favourites, and recently, when I was suffering an overdose of dystopic and experimental science fiction, I had a very happy evening revelling in Heyerland again. I love these stylised Heinemann covers from the 1950sĬotillion is not one of Georgette Heyer’s most well-known novels, nor is it one of the famous ones that get trotted out when trying to explain Heyer’s appeal to newcomers.
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