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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For the next few days, Haewon waited, feeling as though her family teetered on the brink of ruin. Yet by the end of the week, she realized that by some great fortune, no rumor had spread of Yeonhee’s indiscretion. Her family had been spared from irrevocable disgrace—for now.

“You see, yeobo,” Scholar Shin declared to his wife over their meal of soup, barley, and fish, “everything worked out in the end, as I said it would.”

Haewon was determined to believe her father; what good could come from tormenting her mind with what-ifs, from living life fearing what lay around the bend in the road?

The dark cloud of anxiety finally lifted from her, Haewon found herself in particularly good spirits the next morning.