pickOk, I have held off on writing this review for a while because I can‘t do this book justice. Patience is 28 and in her 7th year of marriage to Edward when she finds out he has been cheating. Instead of feeling mad or betrayed, Patience can only wonder why any woman would willingly sleep with any man if she doesn‘t have to! (For pleasure?! What‘s that!) and then she meets Philip and discovers that her marriage has been a void 👇🏻
emilyhaldi ...of life‘s true joys and pleasures. As she tries to break things off with her husband, he can‘t bear the thought, asking her to #letmeloveyou But how can she go back to the life she now realizes wasn‘t at all fulfilling?? I laughed at this fabulously witty book and BAWLED as I read the last page. This is absolutely in my top 3 books of all time. ❤️ #anglophileapril 5y
KarenUK Totally sold by your review... off to buy a copy 💕 5y
Mdargusch Wow! This is now a must read for me! 5y
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CarolynM What @Mdargusch said. Stacked. 5y
Leftcoastzen Nice review! 5y
Soubhiville Yeah you sold me too! 📚 5y
Reviewsbylola I hope I bought this one!! 5y
Cinfhen Wow!!! Top 3 #ThoseAreSeriousWords 🤩😀🙌🏻💕gotta give it a try 5y
BarbaraBB Top 3 of all time? You totally sold it. I‘m off to BookDepository! 5y
BarbaraBB Done 😉😘 5y
batsy What a fabulous review! 5y
Kalalalatja Damn my book buying ban, I want this SO MUCH based on your review 😫 5y
LeahBergen Oh, damn you, Emily!! 😆😆 I need this RIGHT NOW. Maybe we should have a Persephone club alongside our NYRB one. 😂 5y
Cathythoughts I‘m joining the stackers ! Great review 👍🏻♥️ 5y
emilyhaldi @KarenUK @Mdargusch @CarolynM @Soubhiville @Reviewsbylola @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @Kalalalatja @LeahBergen @Cathythoughts I absolutely recommend this to everyone!! I hope you enjoy it as much as i did... for me, it was one of those serendipitous moments when I read the right book at the right time and it ✨magic✨ ps. I believe this is the only Persephone written by a man!! 😱 and you wouldn‘t know it 5y
emilyhaldi Pps. @LeahBergen you KNOW I would be there in a second for a Persephone bookclub!! 🙌🏻 5y
Mdargusch @LeahBergen @emilyhaldi I‘m in a GR Persephone Book read along 👍🏼 5y
mklong Sounds amazing! I gave myself a Persephone subscription for my birthday, but was so overwhelmed for choice that I just picked the first 6 that they published. 5y
BarbaraBB @LeahBergen @emilyhaldi I‘m in 🙋🏻♀️😘 5y
Reviewsbylola I absolutely agree we need to have a Persephone book group too! If you start one, I will join! @leahbergen 5y
Reviewsbylola There‘s at least one other male authored Persephone. I know because I own it. And sadly I checked and I don‘t own this one.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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The Wise Virgins: A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few EmotionsLeahBergen @Mdargusch Oh, I‘ll have to check that out! 5y
LeahBergen @emilyhaldi @Reviewsbylola @BarbaraBB Let‘s see how well we do with our NYRB one. 😆😆 Actually, a Persephone one would probably work really well with the brilliant model that @vivastory created for the NYRB club! 🤔 5y
Reviewsbylola I agree. 😁😁 @LeahBergen 5y
emilyhaldi Agreed @LeahBergen suppose we should try and handle our nyrb club first and go from there 😆 5y
vivastory I would definitely be interested in a Persephone book club. 🙌 5y
RohitSawant Brilliant review! 5y
Reggie I‘m totally in for this book after reading your review! 5y