Love arrives at the most unexpected time . --Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration and The Mozart Code Romantic and evocative read in both contemporary and historical time periods Stand-alone novel Book length: 86,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs.
This love letter to books, and the readers who exist in and for them, is a wondrously singular escape.
But it also acknowledges the dangers of letting ourselves fall too deeply when sometimes an equally powerful connection is waiting next door.
This story is George\'s treatise on the power of books and character to creep across centuries, to pull us close and invite us to live in a fantasy where we find love--literally--in the kinship of ink and binding.
Josie\'s residence in a gothic English manor and her deeply romantic connection to Elias, who lived years in the past, is as chillingly atmospheric as Rochester calling across the moors.
It is a book lover\'s dream experience. --Emily Bain Murphy, author of The Disappearances Dearest Josephine is more than an immersive read.
Dearest Josephine is a delight.
Touching and inventive, it bursts with wit, warmth, and a blending of classic and contemporary that goes together like scones and clotted cream. --Nadine Brandes, author of Romanov Caroline George infuses an epistolary love story with a romance and charm that crosses centuries.
Step aside Pride and Prejudice , there\'s a new romance on the English moors.
This book is teeming with swoon-worthy prose, adorable humor, and an expert delivery of \'Will they end up together?\' I guarantee you\'ll be burning the midnight candle to a stub to get answers.
The characters\' heartaches worked their way into my own chest until I hurt with them, hoped with them, and dared to dream with them.
Dearest Josephine is the type of story that becomes your own. . .
And star-crossed doesn\'t even begin to cover it .
Suddenly she\'s falling in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago.
Now, in the wake of her father\'s death, Josie finds Elias\'s letters.
The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend. 2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends.
He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again. 1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. . .
Love arrives at the most unexpected time
