After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country.

With altogether too many complications

But when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest social circles, Lord Worth cannot help but entangle himself with his adventuresome wards...

Praise for Regency Buck:

"Clever!"? Library Journal
"Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."? Sunday Telegraph
"Light and frothy, in the vein of the author's other Regency novels, this follows the fortunes of Miss Judith Taverner and her brother, Sir Peregrine. A good introduction to Heyer's period stories..." ? The Booklist
"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."? Publishers Weekly
"A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds"? Katie Fenton, Daily Telegraph
"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire too."?Katie Fforde ( )

I was actually rooting for the cousin in this novel. ( )

Pleasant look into the Regency period without too much depth to drag the light plot. Not one of this author's best, but worth reading for anyone who appreciates the genre. ( )

A beautiful heiress, a reluctant guardian, cock-fights, duels of honour, carriage races, well-dressed dandies, poison, kidnapping and (of course) a couple of marriage engagements. What else could you want? An entertaining read. Younger brother Perry offers comedic relief throughout the book. There is, however, one uncomfortable scene (a la "metoo") near the beginning of the book that doesn't look too good to modern eyes. ( )

Oh dear. my copy of this is behyond its last legs. It was being held together with selotape of unknown vintage, but certainly old enough to no longer be effective. The book has come away from the cover and there were any number of loose pages. I ended up reading it part at a time to minimise possibility of dropping it all. Which probably just goes to show this is one that Mum read more often - and I can see why. Judith Taverner and her brother Peregine are on their way to London to establish themselves in society, after a lifetime of being secluded in Yorkshire. Their father, in a fit of pique of some description ,has made them wards pf Lord Worth and it is to him the address themselves. On the journey to London, they meet a gathering at Grantham and, by chance, meet Lord Worth here in less that ideal circumstances. Judith and he don't hit it off, although he calls her Clarinda, which should give a hint to how he feels from the start. As she is his ward, he feels unable to offer for her until she reaches her majority, and so he spends time rejecting her numerous suitors. There is an air of menace, however, as she stands in inherit a larger fortune if Peregine dies, and so Perry finds himself being called out for a duel, being shot at by a highway man, amongst other adventures. He ends up being kidnapped as his marriage comes closer, but as to who is doing the kidnapping and why, that just goes to muddy the waters.
Oh, it's just a delight. The sparring, the attraction of the heiress and her fortune as well as her determination not to bow to rules, be they of society or Lord Worth's invention, make Judith a real character. Love it. ( )