Dearest Josephine
Written by Caroline George
Narrated by Nathalie Pownall
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Love arrives at the most unexpected time . . .
1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again.
2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend.
Now, in the wake of her father's death, Josie finds Elias's letters. Suddenly she's falling in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. And star-crossed doesn't even begin to cover it . . .
“Dearest Josephine is the type of story that becomes your own. The characters’ heartaches worked their way into my own chest until I hurt with them, hoped with them, and dared to dream with them. This book is teeming with swoon-worthy prose, adorable humor, and an expert delivery of ‘Will they end up together?’ I guarantee you’ll be burning the midnight candle to a stub to get answers. Step aside Pride and Prejudice, there’s a new romance on the English moors.” —Nadine Brandes, author of Romanov
“Caroline George infuses an epistolary love story with a romance and charm that crosses centuries. Touching and inventive, it bursts with wit, warmth, and a blending of classic and contemporary that goes together like scones and clotted cream. Dearest Josephine is a delight.” —Emily Bain Murphy, author of The Disappearances
“Dearest Josephine is more than an immersive read. It is a book lover’s dream experience. Josie’s residence in a gothic English manor and her deeply romantic connection to Elias, who lived years in the past, is as chillingly atmospheric as Rochester calling across the moors. This story is George’s treatise on the power of books and character to creep across centuries, to pull us close and invite us to live in a fantasy where we find love—literally—in the kinship of ink and binding. But it also acknowledges the dangers of letting ourselves fall too deeply when sometimes an equally powerful connection is waiting next door. This love letter to books, and the readers who exist in and for them, is a wondrously singular escape.” —Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration and The Mozart Code
- Romantic and evocative read in both contemporary and historical time periods
- Stand-alone novel
- Book length: 86,000 words
Caroline George
Caroline George is the multi-award-winning author of Dearest Josephine, The Summer We Forgot, and other YA novels. She graduated from Belmont University with a degree in publishing and public relations and now dedicates her time to storytelling in its many forms. From a small town in Georgia, Caroline now resides in an even smaller town in Wyoming, where she works for a ranch. When she’s not glued to her laptop or filming cowboys, she can be found hiking, sipping a lavender latte, or practicing her horsemanship. Find her on Instagram: @authorcarolinegeorge; Twitter: @CarolineGeorge_; TikTok: @authorcarolinegeorge.
More audiobooks from Caroline George
The Summer We Forgot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Curses and Other Buried Things Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
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Reviews for Dearest Josephine
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book! Falling in love with your doppelganger from 200 years before is unexpected. There was no time travel or anything too out there, but it had a a satisfying ending. I enjoyed the narrator too!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it! Rom com/mystery/regency romance. Great read for everyone!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a great book! It kept turning, and so many good and unexpected ways! Not a second was boring.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not sure how I feel about this one. The concept was good and the writing okay, but I had a hard time keeping up with the two (three?) different storylines and keeping them separate. It might have worked better if I had read the ebook instead of listening to the audiobook. Maybe I'd have been less... confused is a strong word but it's the one I can come up with.