Oh, Edith,” said Mrs. Miller, sounding tired but unsurprised. “You are a woman of two-and-twenty. Don’t you think you’re a little old for that sort of thing?” Croucher infuses this energetic Regency era friends-to-lovers sapphic romance with zany wit, joie de vivre, and a distinctive literary bent... Bookish readers who wish that Alcott’s Little Women were a bit more explicitly queer will lap this up." –– Publishers Weekly What?” said Rose, pulling away, her face very flushed despite the fact that they were sitting in a rather half-hearted tree house on the first chilly evening of a London September. Agnes,” Gwen said, sitting up in bed and fixing her with a well-practised and rather imperious look, “don’t you have water to fetch, or something?”

Lex Croucher is becoming a firm favourite author. Having read previous novels, as soon as this was released,it was added to the list of titles I wanted to read. Rose snorted into her ivory glove. “If you were queen, everything would be burning down around us. It would be the sequel to the Great Fire of London—the even greater fire of London. And anyway, mad genius, you’d have had to marry the King to become queen.” All right. It was a cold, misty morning in March when Anne Bonny opened the door to the Jelly Roger Tea House—for all intents and purposes a morning like any other, although the events that were about to transpire were to change the course of her life forever…” Eddie ignored her and took a seat next to her father; Rose sat down next to Simon, who solemnly offered her his hand to shake.Oh and I need to make it clear that handsome Captain Edwards is a captain of the navy, incase you are like me and have been seriously binging any kind of naval or set on a ship book recently! That just really added nicely to the overly hotness effect for me Infamous by Lex Croucher is a young adult, regency-era, queer love story that made me laugh and I enjoyed.

Fun and genuinely funny, with lovely friendships and first-rate dialogue. Gwen and Art may not be in love, but I fell for them both' RAINBOW ROWELL, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the SIMON SNOW Trilogy The heavy blue drapes were closed, the smell of her father’s pipe smoke filling the air, and Lucy-Anne had started playing her harp with a sense of grandiosity and an excess of flourishes that did not quite match the occasion. She kept shooting them all furious, narrow-eyed looks every time they were too loud; juxtaposed with the angelic piece she was playing, it was starting to feel like a very surreal performance about the duality of man. The book is silly, fun, heartwarming and romantic, described by Croucher as an “enemies to reluctant allies to friends” story, a twist on the “friends to lovers” trope. As Croucher is keen to emphasise, the friendship is the most important love story in the book, even though both Gwen and Art have their fun with romantic love, too. I wanted to play around in a fantasy/historical timeline and do something where there aren’t any rules The large dining room already seemed rather full. Mr. and Mrs. Miller sat at either end of the table, and between them in varying states of patience sat their three middle children. Simon, who was twelve and perpetually disappointed, was staring morosely down at the table as if he suspected supper might never come. Amelia, who had just recently celebrated her fourteenth birthday by campaigning for her own horse and crying for an impressive six days when she only received one made of wood, was humming under her breath. Lucy-Anne, who fancied herself the eldest and most mature of them all, even though she decidedly was not on either count, was glaring openly at Eddie from across the room.He adds that “acceptance is so much higher now than it was when I was growing up in the 1980s, way higher than I ever expected it would be.”

A big part of me wished I was in a book club so I could discuss the 'reading group suggestions' at the end.They wanted to focus on doing other things, including writing, but the author says the notoriety it brought them has helped them navigate being an author. “If you haven’t been a public-facing person before, it can be quite intense,” Croucher says. “I’ve been online publicly since I was 16 so, for better or worse, my brain is wired to deal with that experience.” Lukewarm on TikTok Eddie had always loved to invent stories, lengthy plays for her siblings to perform and short dramatic tales of daring starring herself and Rose in the main roles, but it was in her early teens that she started to write what she thought of as proper stories—all of them written exclusively for the entertainment and delight of her best friend. She was relentlessly prolific; there was an entire trunk full of her work at the foot of her bed, a treasure trove of great loves and gruesome deaths that she would dip into regularly so that she could present Rose with a story as one might give a bouquet of flowers. With some laugh-out-loud moments, the novel leaves the reader wanting more. Will Emily be found out, who is the stranger in the pub wanting to know all of the gossip regarding Captain Edward's dismissal from the navy and what secret is Aster hiding?

Can I please have a kitten, if you have one to spare?” Rose had replied, apparently unbothered by the quality of the upcoming victuals.Emily's charges - sisters - rebellious Aster and kind-hearted, pleaser Grace keep Emily on her toes - particularly Aster and never mind their father - Captain Edwards - who Emily initially mistakes for a stable hand.