The Five-Minute Marriage

Joan Aiken has such fun when she writes that it’s infectious – gloriously exaggerated characters and plot are spiced by a dry wit which forbids one to take anything seriously at allThe Daily Telegraph

Joan Aiken is a storyteller par excellence with an educated awareness of nineteenth-century English fiction. The Five-Minute Marriage is an agreeable entertainment in which an aristocratic young lady ends up with a title, a husband and a fortune . . . en route there is a duel on a roof and other pleasing incidentsThe Guardian

This lunatic farrago of wackiness is completely typical of Joan Aiken. Funny, fluffy, and utterly absurdRachel Manija Brown, LiveJournal

What is Joan Aiken doing back in regency land? Having fun – with the most ingenious Impostures and Deceits, not to mention attempted Murders, practised on a most agreeable heroine. A country dance in the high style twirled to the tune of a proven virtuosoKirkus Reviews