Obviously, they fall for each other, leading to a great deal of fun and hilarity. He’s hoping the phoney romance will keep society’s “ambitious mamas” at bay, while Daphne is hoping the interest of London’s most eligible bachelor will increase her own value on the marriage market. Basset, who has had a difficult childhood, is determined never to marry and never to have children. The first book, as millions of people now know after it began streaming on Christmas Day, follows eldest daughter Daphne as she agrees to a fake courtship with “rakish” Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings. “Such industriousness on the part of the viscountess and the late viscount is commendable,” writes Quinn of the family’s remarkable size. There are eight novels, one for each sibling’s adventures.
The Bridgerton books recount the romantic adventures of the noisy, loving Bridgerton children in the high society of early 19th-century London. ‘People look down on romance novels’ … Julia Quinn.
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