The Marrying Game: A Novel - Hardcover

Saunders, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312310439 ISBN 13: 9780312310431

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

Like Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub--decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money. Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them.

Thus begins a gloriously modern story that makes us genuinely care about the whole Hasty family. As Rufa and Nancy set out to blaze a trail through London society, they find that nothing in The Marrying Game turns out quite the way they've planned.

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From the Inside Flap:

They set out to marry for money?But they ended up falling in love?

With a batty mother, a crumbling house and no education to speak of, the four Hasty girls aren?t best equipped for the modern world. And when the death of their charming but useless father leaves them nothing but mountains of debt, drastic action is called for.

Luckily the eldest, Rufa ? already expert at making ends meet ? has a Plan. If their sole inheritance is their ravishing good looks then she and her sisters must put all thoughts of love out of their minds and Marry Money. And so, with her outrageously sexy sister Nancy, she sets off to blaze a trail through London society?The Marrying Game has begun.

From the Back Cover:

“A marvellous read…Kate Saunders is such a wonderful writer.” – Jilly Cooper

“An absorbing, rollicking story, throbbing with sex and effortlessly controlled.” – Good Housekeeping

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312310439
• ISBN 13: 9780312310431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384