Love in the Afternoon

Name: Love in the Afternoon
Rating: 4.23 (60085 reviews)

by Lisa Kleypas Book 5 in the The Hathaways series.

First published 2010

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Beatrix Hathaway secretly writes to soldier Christopher Phelan when the woman he believes he is corresponding with loses interest. Christopher returns from the Crimean War altered by combat and convinced that another woman understands him, leaving Beatrix to choose between sustaining the deception and revealing the source of the letters that kept him alive.

The novel brings the family saga into direct contact with the Crimean War and its psychological aftermath. Letters connect the home front to military service, while Christopher’s distress reflects experiences that Victorian society had little language or treatment for.