Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m

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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Chapter 11

Look away.

He ought to have walked past, ought to have ignored the sight of her standing between the shelves, lost in a daydream.

But he had faltered, recalling the young woman who had spoken of books with a passion that had burned into his memory.

All thoughts of decorum faded as he’d watched her, the dust motes drifting between them in the golden sunlight.