Description Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize1896. Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas … and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?’An addictive, romantic epistolary novel’ Guardian’This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight’ Irish Times’Thrilling and cleverly constructed’ Daily Mail’A gorgeous, immersive book’ Observer’An unputdownable friendship story’ Hilary McKay
