--- product_id: 8731606 title: "Friday's Child (Regency Romances Book 6)" brand: "georgette heyer" price: "S$34" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/8731606-fridays-child-regency-romances-book-6 store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # Friday's Child (Regency Romances Book 6) **Brand:** georgette heyer **Price:** S$34 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Friday's Child (Regency Romances Book 6) by georgette heyer - **How much does it cost?** S$34 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/8731606-fridays-child-regency-romances-book-6) ## Best For - georgette heyer enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted georgette heyer brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Friday's Child (Regency Romances Book 6) ## Images ![Friday's Child (Regency Romances Book 6) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51kZrAedOtL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ incredibly cute and fun *by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2015* Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer may be one of the silliest Regency Romances I’ve ever read, but for once, I’m using "silly" as a positive descriptor. I wanted something light and entertaining, and Heyer’s Regencies can always be counted upon to fit that bill.The male protagonist of this book is, at first, anything but heroic. Lord Sheringham, (otherwise known as the Viscount or Anthony) is a spoiled, entitled young rake who finds himself in a bind. Having inherited his title early, along with a generous allowance, he has been running wild, enjoying himself with drinking, gambling, and loose women. Naturally, this scandalizes the ton, but not too much, since he is male and boys will be boys. Anthony’s problem is that he has outspent his allowance. His late father, no doubt a good judge of his son’s character, has tied the family fortune up in a trust that Anthony cannot touch until he is twenty-five or. . .marries. Anthony has come up with a solution. He and half of London’s worthy gentlemen have been courting the exceedingly beautiful and well-bred Isabella Milborne. Anthony thinks she will have him. After all, he is first to offer for her. Moreover, he feels certain of her yes since they knew each other as children and he imagines she remembers this childhood friendship with some fondness. Isabella refuses him, citing his poor character for excuse, but in fact, she doesn’t feel his proposal is heartfelt enough. When she understands his reason stems from monetary embarrassment, even a somewhat temporary one (he’s not marrying her for her fortune, but for his own) she is sure she has made the right choice in saying no. Anthony is peeved. He’s furious Isabella would insult his character. Not because it isn’t true, but because it is true of everyone and besides, girls shouldn’t know about such things, etc. At any rate, while in his peevish state, he comes across another old friend, Hero Wantage. When the youthful aristocrats played together back in the old days, Hero was the tagalong, the baby of the group, and the misfit. Although her birth was as good as theirs, she was orphaned and taken in by a cousin, who made sure she understood her poverty and dependence. She was quite a bit younger. (Currently, she is not yet seventeen.) Anthony allowed her to fetch and carry for him and she was pathetically grateful. In fact, he treated her wretchedly, but with a certain regard which was better than the cruel disdain of the other children. Hero is now quite upset, and her distress distracts Anthony from his own problems. It seems that Hero’s cousin, who has three plain and unpleasant daughters to introduce to society, is finished with Hero. A choice has been put before the unfortunate girl: she may go to Bath and become a governess or she can marry the curate. Anthony is appalled. He has never liked Hero’s cousin or the daughters and this cements his opinion of them. Impetuous by nature, the obvious solution occurs to him, and before he can think of the down sides, he blurts out that Hero should marry him (by special license, the next day.) It would solve both their dilemmas. They wouldn’t have to change their lives, of course, it would just be a marriage of convenience. Hero has no idea what she is getting into, only that she is escaping a fate she does not want, to run away with a man she adores. And trusts. And things go haywire from here on out. Normally, I enjoy clever heroines and sardonic heroes. I like witty repartee. I like significant external forces keeping lovers apart, and the strong heroine and hero overcoming them to find their way back together. This isn’t that book–yet I loved it. These characters are not clever. Little more than children, they bumble their way into marriage, play at setting up a household, and pretend to start a life together. It is their good-natured bumbling that makes this book such a delight. The fun of this book is the refreshingly simple characters. They make mistakes and immediately apologize. Both of them. They forgive each other, laugh, and move on. Certainly, they go on to make other mistakes, but as one of Anthony's more astute friends points out, Hero never makes the same mistake twice. Their marriage is strange, but it is a fun and companionable one. However, there is one looming imbalance. Hero obviously adores Anthony. Anthony also adores Anthony. But eventually he’s going to have to realize that it isn’t just a sense of responsibility and proprietorship that he feels for Hero. Either he regrets his rash decision in marrying her or he doesn’t. Either he yearns for the carefree abandon of his bachelorhood, or he would not trade Hero for all the gambling hells and opera dancers in the world. Which will it be? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Friday's Child Is Loving And Giving *by G***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017* I loved this book! And loving a book by Georgette Heyer usually means a little intellectual blather in the review, about the dead-on history or the period language. But Friday’s Child is entirely of the heart, and that’s where it hits you. It’s also quite possibly the funniest book she ever wrote, and I think this one-two punch explains why Friday’s Child always comes up high on the list of fan favorites.Anthony, Lord Sheringham, needs a wife to come into his inheritance. He’s very young, barely out of his twenties, good-looking and utterly self-centered. The story opens with the hapless Sherry proposing to a girl he grew up with and always assumed he’d marry, Miss Isabella Milborne, nicknamed the Incomparable. To his astonishment she turns him down flat, and that’s when the fun begins.Miss Hero Wantage is an orphan, a poor relation thrust on some cousins to raise. She, too, grew up with Sherry, although, unlike the Incomparable, she was always his stooge. Driving back to London, way too fast, Sherry stumbles on Hero, who’s crying. She’s seventeen and about to be tossed out on her ear, to a school in Bath that will train her to become a governess. Hero doesn’t mind telling him everything, because she’s always adored Sherry. And Sherry, of course, likes being adored. By a girl who’s actually rather pretty. And who has nowhere to go.Why not? After all, she’s so green, so sweet, she won’t be any trouble. Or, as he tells his friends, “If I must marry someone, I’d as lief marry Hero as anyone else. Poor little soul.” You can almost smell the comeuppance brewing.Sherry believes he’s rescuing her, but Hero isn’t content merely to marry a viscount. It may look like an adolescent case of hero worship, but Hero’s love for Sherry is the touching constant in the story, unchanging. It sounds corny, but she’s pure of heart. She’s a bit like Leonie in These Old Shades, but unlike Leonie, Hero is an innocent, dangerously so. She never questions that what Sherry does is right, that what he wants is what is best, leading to several Regency-style domestic disasters.Most of the laughs come from Sherry’s three close friends, his London cronies – his cousin Ferdy Fakenham, Gil Ringwood, and the wildly Byronic George Wrotham. Lord Wrotham also happens to be madly in love with the Incomparable. Once more, as in Cotillion, an array of sharply-drawn characters, including daffy grandmothers and pickpocket postillions, tangle into great situations punctuated with hysterical dialogue, particularly from the unforgettable dim-bulb Ferdy. It’s straight out of Wodehouse’s Drone’s Club, though really, all of them do some growing up in the course of the book. Hero not only doesn’t resent Sherry’s friends, she makes them her own, and they come to adore her. To Sherry’s jealous irritation.And the end? Magic. She skillfully weaves another of her Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum chase-and-mix-up endings, as fine as The Grand Sophy. As for romance, growing up with Sherry as he comes to understand how much he loves his wife makes this one of her most touching love stories. Truly a winner. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my favourites/ Eines meiner Lieblingsbücher *by C***A on Reviewed in Germany on January 23, 2016* "Friday's Child", oder in der deutschen Übersetzung, "Lord Sherry", war einer meiner Lieblingsromane als Teenager. Der Protagonist ist ein liebenswerter Egoist, die Protagonistin ein sehr naives Mädchen vom Land, das ihn anhimmelt. Beide entwickeln sich während dem Buch zu reiferen Menschen. Wie in jedem Georgette Heyer Roman ist der Ton sehr leicht und locker; realistisch sind die Romane nicht, aber man geht ja auch zu ihr um der Realität zu entfliehen. In der wirklichen Welt wäre die Beziehung der beiden milde gesagt das Rezept für eine sehr unglückliche, wenn nicht missbräuchliche Ehe. (Wir müssen auch die Zeit berücksichtigen, in der das Buch geschrieben. Sherry ohrfeigt Hero merhmals. Das ist natürlich absolut nicht in Ordnung! Im Buch wird es dargestellt als normales Verhalten eines ungezügelten jungen Mannes. Er bereut es ein bisschen, aber meiner Ansicht nach wird es zu verharmlost). In Georgette Heyer's Welt wird alles gut, auch wenn die aufmerksame Leserin (also nicht ich mit 16) bemerken wird, dass düsterere Möglichkeiten durchaus angedeutet sind. Und Ferdy Fakenham und Gil Ringwood sind meine absoluten Lieblingsnebencharakter. Die beiden sind herrlich zusammen und bilden einen schönen Kontrast zueinander aber auch zu Sherry.----This was my favourite romance novel when I was a teenager and it still ranks high among my favourites. The male protagonist is a charming egotist, the female protagonist a naive girl from the country, who worships him. Both mature during the course of the novel. The tone is very light, as in every Heyer novel. Her novels are never realistic, but one reads a Heyer novel to escape reality. In the real world, the dynamics between the two would be the recipe for an abusive marriage. In Heyer's world it all works out. The astute reader (not me at 16) will notice, however, that Heyer is not naive; there are hints that both of them are lucky it all worked out as it did. (We also need to make allowances to the time this was written: Sherry does box Hero's ears from time to time, which is not framed as spousal abuse but as normal for a rash young man, and although it is not exactly condoned it's also not punished enough, in my opinion). In addition to those two, I love Ferdy Fakenham and Gil Ringwood. Those are two of my favourite minor characters. They are hilarious together and a good contrast to Sherry. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sg/products/8731606-fridays-child-regency-romances-book-6](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/8731606-fridays-child-regency-romances-book-6) --- *Product available on Desertcart Singapore* *Store origin: SG* *Last updated: 2026-07-06*