Just Like Heaven

by Julia Quinn Book 1 in the Smythe-Smith Quartet series.

First published 2011

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Honoria Smythe-Smith plays violin in her family’s famously unsuccessful annual musicale and is determined to find a husband. Marcus Holroyd, Earl of Chatteris and the closest friend of her exiled brother, has quietly promised to look after her and repeatedly interferes with unsuitable courtships.

When an accident leaves Marcus dependent on Honoria’s care, their long familiarity changes. The novel uses the comic Smythe-Smith performance tradition to explore loneliness, chosen family and the gradual recognition that companionship already present may matter more than the dramatic match Honoria imagined.