Overview
Love arrives at the most unexpected time . . .Ā
1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again.
2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend.
Now, in the wake of her father's death, Josie finds Elias's letters. Suddenly she's falling in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. And star-crossed doesn't even begin to cover it . . .Ā
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āDearest Josephine is the type of story that becomes your own. The charactersā heartaches worked their way into my own chest until I hurt with them, hoped with them, and dared to dream with them. This book is teeming with swoon-worthy prose, adorable humor, and an expert delivery ofĀ āWill they end up together?āĀ I guarantee youāll be burning the midnight candle to a stub to get answers. Step aside Pride and Prejudice, thereās a new romance on the English moors.āĀ āNadine Brandes, author of Romanov
āCaroline George infuses an epistolary love story with a romance and charm that crosses centuries. Touching and inventive, it bursts with wit, warmth, and a blending of classic and contemporary that goes together like scones and clotted cream. Dearest Josephine is a delight.āĀ āEmily Bain Murphy, author of The DisappearancesĀ
āDearest Josephine is more than an immersive read. It is a book loverās dream experience.Ā Ā Josieās 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. This story is Georgeās treatise on the power of books and character to creep across centuries, to pull us close andĀ invite us to live in a fantasy where we find loveāliterallyāin the kinship of ink and binding. But it also acknowledges the dangers of letting ourselves fall too deeply when sometimes an equally powerful connection is waiting next door.Ā This love letter to books, and the readers who exist in and for them, is a wondrously singular escape.āĀ āRachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration and The Mozart CodeĀ
- 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 book title, Dearest Josephine, ISBN: 9780785236184, by Caroline George, published by Thomas Nelson (February 2, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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