My Betterhalf
By Genevieve SinclairA heart with a mind of its own.
Adult romance with explicit sexual content. Check the retailer description and sample for further information before reading.
About the story
They have plans for her life. She has begun to imagine her own.
Eleanor Butler is expected to regard the convent at Kilkenny as a kindness. At thirty-nine, with a mind full of books and little patience for euphemisms, she knows the difference between a refuge and a future someone else has chosen for her.
At a gathering in Kilkenny Castle, she notices Sarah Ponsonby sitting apart with a book held closed on her finger. It is a small, familiar gesture: the quiet impatience of a reader waiting for the room to leave her alone. Recognition begins there, before either woman knows what a life shaped around the other might demand.
A historical sapphic novel inspired by the Ladies of Llangollen, imagining the private hopes behind a partnership remembered across generations. This is a fictional treatment of their lives.
Your kind of romance?
- The Ladies of Llangollen
- Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby
- Books, wit, and recognition
- A historical sapphic life imagined beyond expectation
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From the opening pages
My father has informed me, three times this fortnight, that I am to consider the convent at Kilkenny a mercy rather than a sentence, as though the frequency of the assertion might yet persuade me of its truth.
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