Pan 1967 Edition

"Georgette Heyer  commenced The Toll - Gate in the Autumn of 1953 and set it during 1817.

Her sole starting point was "mammoth hero and heroine and the toll gate"

""The future of a reckless and adventure-loving captain of the Dragoon Guards appeared very hum-drum and tedious in those days when Waterloo was both a recent, glorious victory and an end to the joys of soldiering. Big, handsome Captain John Staple left the Army because he feared boredom, and was immediately plunged into the kind of exciting hazards his temperament demanded.

John Staple soon found himself involved in perilous activities in which participated such varied and colourful personalities [some extremely honest - others less so] as Jeremy Chirk the highwayman, Gabriel Stogumber the Bow Street Runner, and Nell Stornaway with whom the Captain's heart was soon deeply entangled.

The Toll-Gate is an exciting, witty, and highly entertaining Regency romance such as only Miss Georgette Heyer can write"".

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""Georgette Heyer is famous for her delightful Regency romances, and there is a modern sophistication about her handling of them that makes them irresistible.  This post-Waterloo adventure is no exception. She has innumerable admirers already, but there must still be some who only wait to be awakened to her spell. Let them wait no longer before joining the happy circle of her readers"".

QUEEN

""Told in a brisk canter of prose that leaves the reader breathless by the end of the story, but thoroughly pleased with it all"".                                

SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH

""Once again from the pen of Miss Heyer comes an exciting, witty novel. This latest has all the humour and excitement that we have come to expect from her"". 

LIVERPOOL EVENING EXPRESS

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