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The Five-Minute Marriage

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22 February 2022
304 pages
9781529093551
Imprint: Pan

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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 all
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 incidents
This lunatic farrago of wackiness is completely typical of Joan Aiken. Funny, fluffy, and utterly absurd
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 virtuoso