A Surfeit of Suitors

by Barbara Hazard

Lady Georgina Spalding, a twenty-five-year-old widow, must choose between a brash American plantation owner, a stuffy lord, and a notorious rogue

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance

217 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1983

About the author

Barbara (Booth) Hazard, a resident of Exeter, NH, died on October 25, 2019 in Boston, MA surrounded by family. Born in 1931 in Fall River, MA, the daughter of Albert L. and Lillian (Holland) Booth, she was raised and educated in New England. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1953 and was briefly employed by Ginn & Company in Boston as a Technical Editor. She married Donald T. Hazard in 1954 and next worked as a Graphic Designer/Artist for a Concord, NH advertising firm.

Originally trained as a musician, Mrs. Hazard also studied oil painting with Amy Jones and for a time had several shows in New York and Vermont. She began to write historical fiction in 1978. First published in 1981, she went on to write and publish 48 books, several of which are also in circulation abroad. She won several awards for her writing.

Mrs. Hazard wrote that there were several things in her life that she was most proud of; being Concertmaster of the MA All State Orchestra in Symphony Hall in Boston, having a successful career as an artist and as a writer, which was her greatest love besides her husband, three sons and their wives.

She loved New England and in particular, Cape Cod, which she visited every year for most of her life. Her other loves included her family, reading and music. She also wrote under the pen name of Lillian Lincoln.

Reviews

[Reforming · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Nefarious villain. Fun secondary character.

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually would give this 2.5 stars if I could. It's not a bad book at all. Rich in details, interesting characters, and mention of the Former Colonies which is something that surprisingly few Regency romances seem to remember/mention. On the other hand, I don't buy the end result easily because the falling-in-love was very, uh... Behind the scenes and off the page. They just suddenly, bam, realized "I love him/her." But there was no real build or evidence of that developing. So it works well as a story but fails a bit as a romance.

[Pumpkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was in middle school I began covertly devouring romance novels, usually regency era. To this day I remember this as the best historical romance novel I've ever read. I learned so many SAT vocabulary words from these novels and spent many a Sunday curled up with one from my pile from the public library. This one I actually bought from a bookstore with my babysitting money when I was 13.

[Sylvia · Rating 4 out of 5]

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