The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

Quinn, now 50, has been a consultant on the series, but mainly stepped back and let showrunner Chris Van Dusen and his team get on with it. If so, are you interested in having them option it? I was like, ‘Yes, is this a trick question?’” They’re curious whether the rights are available to the Bridgerton books. He said, ‘I heard from one of Shonda Rhimes’ representatives. “I was just sitting in Starbucks, as one does when one lives in Seattle, and I got a call from my agent. It was in January 2017 that she got the call about TV interest. Light, pacy and full of feisty heroines, they’re all dedicated to her husband Paul, and all deliciously titled – from The Viscount Who Loved Me to How to Marry a Marquis and It’s in His Kiss.ĭeliciously titled … some of Quinn’s bestsellers. She got into Yale medical school the same month she landed a publishing contract – and the rest is bestsellers by the dozen. She then decided to become a doctor but, as a lover of historical romances set in Regency London, had tried writing one of her own. Quinn, whose real name is Julie Pottinger, grew up mainly in New England and studied art history at Harvard. Obviously, they fall for each other, leading to a great deal of fun and hilarity. He’s hoping the phoney romance will keep society’s “ambitious mamas” at bay, while Daphne is hoping the interest of London’s most eligible bachelor will increase her own value on the marriage market. Basset, who has had a difficult childhood, is determined never to marry and never to have children. The first book, as millions of people now know after it began streaming on Christmas Day, follows eldest daughter Daphne as she agrees to a fake courtship with “rakish” Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings. “Such industriousness on the part of the viscountess and the late viscount is commendable,” writes Quinn of the family’s remarkable size. There are eight novels, one for each sibling’s adventures. The Bridgerton books recount the romantic adventures of the noisy, loving Bridgerton children in the high society of early 19th-century London. ‘People look down on romance novels’ … Julia Quinn.

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn