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He comes back to town from abroad to demand that she gives him an heir before he’ll grant the divorce. When we start the story, Gigi has requested a divorce from Camden so that she can be free to marry another man. In the non-chronological storytelling, it takes awhile for the reader to uncover what happened ten years ago and all the intervening years since.

In this book, we learn how their marriage starts, becomes fractured, and how they might find their way back to each other. We learned in the last book that marchioness has an arrangement with her husband allowing her to dally with affairs. This one is an estranged marriage story told in non-chronological order. Shop this book via Amazon // Libro.fm Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas (2008) The wedding takes place about halfway through this book, so we get to see this odd courtship for the front half, and an emotionally bumbling slow burn on the back half.Įbook borrowed from my local library via Libby. Neither are willing to face emotional rejection, so they each only admit to a carnal attraction for each other, and the practicalities of a marriage of convenience. These two keep bumping into each other, likely from Felix’s maneuvering, to the point where Felix offers for Louisa to be his mistress… and she continues to refuse, until Felix ultimately offers marriage. When she’s introduced to Felix, they both can see right through each other’s facades: Louisa sees that he’s not truly the polished gentleman that he presents, and Felix sees that Louisa aims for financial security more than anything. For Louisa’s first (and likely only) Season in London, she’s set out a strategy for catching a reasonably financially stable fellow without overreaching. In this one, we have Felix, a marquess with a tragic upbringing who has an amiable and popular reputation, and Louisa, an impoverished lady with four sisters who need a financial cushion. So I picked up this book because it’s this month’s book club pick from Felicity Niven and Alexandra Vasti’s new Facebook group. The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas (2013)

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