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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Seojun stared at the yellow ribbons on the pine tree, catching glimpses of them fluttering above the wall that separated the men’s and women’s courtyards. A tradition his mother had begun and his sister had continued, tying her prayers onto its branches.

For my prayers to be seen by the heavens, she had replied shyly when he asked.

She never told him what her prayers were, but he’d known it the moment she took into her care the mutt he had brought home, much to his father’s dismay. The creature was now her constant companion.

Seojun looked away from the window, returning his attention to the young maid behind him.