When Beauty Tamed The Beast – Eloisa James Free Audiobook

Written by Eloisa James
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When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. He’s a Beast. Miss Linnet Thynne is one of the most exquisite young ladies ever to grace London’s ballrooms. She’s a Beauty. But wait—there’s more! Piers is a doctor: brilliant, lame, and impossible to get along with. There’s a version of him on Fox TV, named after a habitation. Linnet has been involved in a scandalous flirtation with a prince, and everyone in the ton thinks she’s carrying a royal child: she needs a husband.

Linnet estimates it will take two weeks—at the outside—to bring the earl to his knees. Piers knows that he will never fall in love, and definitely never marry.

I love writing novels, but this novel was a particularly joyful experience. I’ve never had so much fun—and not just because I’m a House, M.D. fan either. I hope you love the second entry in my “Happily Ever Afters” just as much as I do.

» If you’ve never seen the Fox T.V. show, House, M.D., then you are missing a treat. It was while watching Hugh Laurie’s brilliant performance as an irascible, egotistical doctor that I started wondering what it would be like to be a doctor back in the 1800s—with just that same amount of self-assured arrogance. A bit of digging led to a historical doctor who was pleasingly similar. So although my story (and Piers) veered wildly from House, my initial inspiration for Piers came from the television show.

» I’ve always loved Beauty and the Beast. I grew up reading scarier versions than the Disney movie and its dancing teacups, but when my six-year-old daughter fell in love with Belle and the household staff, I happily watched (and re-watched) the movie with her. My heroine definitely has a flavor of Belle—a beautiful girl who is an intellectual at heart.

» This is a book that, for one reason or another, is full of references to literature, especially to T.S. Eliot and Shakespeare—thus the butler named Prufrock, the references to the poem, and Linnet’s joke about Hamlet. I was reading Enid Blyton to my daughter, which inspired the swimming pool carved out of rock that meshed with T.S. Eliot’s fear of drowning. If you’d like to read Eliot’s “The Love Poem of J. Alfred Prufrock,” here it is.

» The storm that catches Linnet and Piers actually happened to friends of mine on a visit to Wales. I have no idea whether weather of that nature happens frequently, but their vivid description made its way onto the pages, perhaps because one of them is a writer as well: thank you, Mark Haddon!