Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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Haewon hurried with only one shoe on and could not say when she had lost the other.

Perhaps it had slipped off when she stumbled over a jutting stone in the road, or when she had veered off the path to take a quicker, alternate route, leading her maid and sister down a small hill and across a trickling stream.

But one shoe was gone, and quite frankly, she did not care.

“Your family is doomed,” Maid Boram gasped, holding Jade’s arm as they scurried down another path.