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Building on Bridgerton

Dearest reader, it must be said, This Author loves a love story. Yes, it is I, Lady Whistledown, here to tell you why it is this Ton so rich and robust which holds the fifth spot in the most popular Netflix series of all time.

Pssst, not really – it’s me, Rosalind! And though I’m not a self-confessed superfan of much historical romance fiction, full of fussy characters and frilly traditions, this book was the diamond in my season – mine and that of 63 million other households, universe capturing our thirsty Covid-era imaginations and becoming #1 guiltiest pleasures in 76 countries. Our worlds could not be further apart, their middleclass marriage storylines a comforting change to the news.

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