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Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer

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A young woman's romantic novel runs into problems, when she realizes that the villain of her book bears a much greater resemblance than she expected to a real person...
This is probably the funniest Heyer novel that I've read yet. Some of the characters are gloriously over the top: the mother who adors her baby boy all the time except when he's noisy, needs someone to play with, have a story read to him, etc. ( ie. she only really likes him, when someone else is looking after him but not the reality)
There is a cheerfully over the top fop with every single exaggerated item with clothing and jewelry that you could possibly wish for.
And a little boy who has picked up an awful lot of language he shouldn't have from the stable hands - and who then produces it at just the most in-opportune moment.

All in all, plenty of laughs, as well as a wonderfully mismatched couple who do manage to get together eventually, just in time for the required happy ending.

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