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@chloeliese recommends (and writes) some of my favorite books, so when she said she was rereading this one, I knew I had to bump it up my TBR. Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas is a hug of a book for me in the same way as The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: even though both are set against the backdrop of war, there’s a coziness and a comfort to them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I loveee an epistolary element and Love in the Afternoon delivered. Prue is too busy flirting to write to one of her suitors fighting in the Crimean War, so she asks her friend Beatrix to write to him on her behalf. What could possibly go wrong?! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How can anyone read the letters exchanged between Beatrix and Christopher at the start of the book and not fall in love with them?! I was reminded a bit of a book I finished recently, When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare, but that one is much more a comedy. This novel is earnest and heartfelt and a great finale to one of my favorite series of Kleypas’, which I read completely out of order. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ CW: loss of a loved one, violence, PTSD, kleptomania, sexual content ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID1: I’m holding a mass market paperback copy of Love in the Afternoon. ID2: I’m holding the same book, open to the step back. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CegUd54LYfD/