We all know that Georgette Heyer ranked high among her own harshest critics, and some twenty years into her career she made a decision to withdraw six of her titles from publication: two early historical novels, The Great Roxhythe and Simon the Coldheart, and her four contemporaries, Instead of the Thorn, Helen, Pastel and Barren Corn. While Simon was blessedly restored to us after her death, the other five remain out of popular print, available only from boutique publishers and in second hand editions. But what we want to know is, who among us has read them anyway? Select all that apply…
