The Garden Intrigue, Lauren Willig
The Garden Intrigue, Lauren Willig
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The Garden Intrigue

Author: Lauren Willig

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 14 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/16/2012


Synopsis

In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can't bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus's side. An old school friend of Napoleon's stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, the American envoy; eloped with a Frenchman; and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Widowed for four years, she entertains herself by drinking too much champagne, holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus's poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend's entertainment. Emma is at a crossroads: Should she return to the States or remain in France? She'll do anything to postpone the decision-even if it means teaming up with that silly poet Whittlesby to write a masque for Bonaparte's house party. But each soon learns that surface appearances are misleading. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted- especially Augustus's feelings for Emma.

About The Author

Lauren Willig is the author of the New York Times bestselling Pink Carnation series and a RITA Award-winner for Best Regency Historical for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. A graduate of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in English history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.Kate Reading is the recipient of three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot. Her favorite BOT recordings include Like Water for ChocolateMiddlemarch, and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on April 17, 2012

It is all about bad poetry isn’t it? Thus, shamelessly pressing on…… Augustus Whittlesby has nothing on me. When it comes to verse I’m considerably worse. Dear readers and fans I bring good news Lauren Willig has shown her muse in Pink Carnation number nine: The Garden Intrigue, most divine. A poet-spy takes......more

Goodreads review by Shruti morethanmylupus on March 04, 2013

This series is my favorite guilty pleasure read. Willig's writing is getting considerably better as the series goes on, in my opinion. Or, perhaps, it is just that her goofy characters turn out better than the classic dashing heroes. Turnip's story in The Mischief of the Mistletoe and Augustus' stor......more

Goodreads review by Megzy on December 22, 2016

2.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Angelc on February 20, 2012

4.5 Stars As soon as I saw that this book had a poet as the lead male character, I knew I had to read it. And Augustus Whittlesby doesn't disappoint. I love that he battles with his 'real' self and his invented persona of poet. It's even more interesting that the two have actually become one more tha......more

Goodreads review by Diana on February 19, 2012

I can't wait for this to come out. This is one of the rare series that seems to get better the further along it gets. :)......more


Quotes

“As fresh and charming as its floral theme.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“Enlightening and entertaining as always, and full of plenty of romance and intrigue, this is a strong choice.”
-Library Journal

“Readers will be pleased to see the spy who inspired the series in action and will enjoy the charming, witty rapport between Augustus and Emma.”
-Booklist