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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The following week, with three transcribed copies of Munmuja’s newest stories prepared, Haewon convinced Jade to visit the Five Willows bookshop, with Maid Boram as their escort.

She was convinced that if Jade remained home a moment longer, her sister would surely spend the entire day moping about her future.

A government official had arrived earlier to rebuke Mother for rejecting every suitor as unworthy of Jade, to the point that no matchmaker would even consider the Shin household anymore.

He warned that if Jade did not marry within two months, Father would face punishment, and the official himself would be dismissed from his post and haunt their doorstep for the remainder of his life.