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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Haewon sat, swaying to and fro in a palanquin fit for a princess, feeling very much like a wet rag with bits of reed still tangled in her hair.

The servants at Myeongwoldang House had offered to change her into a spare dress but she had begged to leave for home at once.

To escape as far as she could from the home of Lord Yu.

Haewon folded her face into her hands.