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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Every respectable lady had been taught at a young age that chastity was her most precious possession.

She was to remain wholly pure, pristine and untouched for her husband, preserved like a prized flower.

For a lady to then exchange private letters with a man unrelated to her was beyond improper.

It was ruinous, and Haewon knew that if she attempted to entrust Maid Boram with such a task, the girl would likely cast the letter into the fire.