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    <body><![CDATA[The one where penniless, orphaned Kate is taken in by an aunt she's never met, and begins to discover strange things happening in the manor. <br/><br/>This was two different books that didn't mesh well together. The romance conflicts with the suspense in a way that takes the power out of both of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15658922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only other book I've read by Georgette Heyer was a complete farce, so I was expecting the same type of light comedy when I picked up this book; I was floored when the plot progressed into something much closer to a Gothic mystery.  The writing conveys a fantastic blend of pragmatic humor and ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53463567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Malvern is considered at 25 on the brink of old age by the Regency standards. Her prospects for the future are looking worse and worse by the minute. With no parents, no dowry to speak of and no real prospects for substantial income, Kate has only one person to turn to: her nurse Sarah Nidd. Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57189914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fate and circumstance have seen fit to place Kate Malvern in such unforseen dire financial straights that she hardly has a place in the world. Having been dismissed from her position as a governess Kate finds herself on the doorstep of Sarah Nidd, the nurse who cared for her during her youth. Fortun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52684100">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In you aren't a die hard Georgette Heyer fan, you might be unaware that all of her books are being re-printed--a blessing for those of us who are huge followers.  Cousin Kate was a book absent from any library collection of which I have been a patronage.  However, due to the re-printing, I am able t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68605479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is darker than most of Heyer's other Regency Romances since a main character is crazy, kills his mother and then himself.  Still it is a well told story and the requisite romance occurs just like you expect.<br/>I've been working my way through all of Heyer's books and so I was excited to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54458701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I put off reading Cousin Kate for almost three months now because False Colours and parts of A Convenient Marriage left a sour taste in my mouth. I actually started this book twice and barely managed to get past the first ten pages; the narrative just didn’t grabbed me. And then when I finally man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59139151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate is a young girl in her mid-twenties. Young by our standards, but in the Regency period she was bordering on being an old maid. What is worse is that both of her parents have died, and she has just lost her job as a nanny. So she has no home, no job, and nothing for a dowry.<br/><br/>She has t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53652967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heyer, Georgette. 1968. Cousin Kate.<br/><br/>At no time during the twenty-four hours was the Bull and Mouth Inn a place of quiet or repose, and by ten o'clock in the morning, when the stage-coach from Wisbech, turning top-heavily out of Aldersgate, lumbered into its yard, it seemed, to one weary ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31150248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25231795">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Georgette Heyer's most Gothic novels, <u>Cousin Kate</u> follows the story of the eponymous Kate Malvern, who finds herself almost penniless at age twenty-four. The unexpected kindness of her estranged half-aunt, Lady Minerva Broome, seems like a godsend, until Kate discovers that all is not as it s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25231795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15135086">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Malvern is 24 and has no relations or money.  Just as she is contemplating sinking beneath the boundaries of gentility and becoming a domestic servant, her heretofore unmet aunt descends upon her.  She is the Lady Broome, and she overwhelms Kate with kindess and brings her to Staplewood, the an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15135086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13496128">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my least favourite of Georgette Heyer's historical fiction novels.  Still very well written, and the main character Kate is a likeable girl;  she's a typical courageous and confident Heyer heroine, despite being destitute, and has a delightful and loyal old nurse, Sarah, always willing to com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13496128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57894379">
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    <body><![CDATA[The only other Georgette Heyer novel I've read is Frederica, which was witty and charming and quite sweet.  This book, Cousin Kate, was a little darker, an attempt at Gothic instead of a Jane Austen-like romance.  The dark side didn't pay off for me; the book's reoccupation with the madness of Kate'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57894379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51493155">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it for the first time, and didn't like it much. It was not a romance, but a thriller with elements of a romance, and it didn't quite work for me. The insanity has just brought sadness, and the mother's drive - anger, and the romance itself didn't quite work, and I can hardly remember Hero and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51493155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Psychological drama unlike any of the other novel formats. Kate Malvern is destitute and cut off from her family so is  thought to be easy prey to be used by Kate's paternal aunt Minerva. Invited to the family estate, Staplewood, Kate is the being maneuvered into place to be used in shoring up the B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72796668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First time I read this book back in high school, I found it weird and it put a temporarily end to my Georgette Heyer reading. When I reread in later years I had grown more used to GH's style and was able to appriciate her attempt to combine romance and thriller. It will never be one of my favourites...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42700891">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1971</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Light gothic romance fiction, among my Mom's favorites. Considerably better than the average gothic romance. Some of them are more like historical fiction, such as Simon the Coldheart. I read them from time to time when I was growing up. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very pleasant read. Rather lightweight, what I would term &quot;comfort-reading&quot;. Just the sort of gentle book needed after a particularly taxing week.<br/>The story here is really quite good, with family madness as a background theme. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cousin Kate was sort of a suprise! The plot has more mystery to it than her other &quot;romance&quot; books. Heyer did a great job in developing the characters personalities slowly throughout the story. This allows a mystery to unfold befor your eyes and then climax almost at the end. It's one of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49806598">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely not my favorite <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18067.Georgette_Heyer" title="Georgette Heyer">Georgette Heyer</a>. I like the main characters, but there was too much violence for me (this is one of her mysteries).]]></body>
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