Bridgerton: To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons Book 5): Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton: Eloise's story (Bridgerton Family)

Product Information

I confess to a certain measure of isolation here in the country, and if one cannot have a smiling face across one’s breakfast table, then one might at least have an amiable letter, don’t you think? No, she reflected with a rather impressive (in her opinion, at least) display of self-honesty, there were two things about her that colored her every action– she liked to act quickly and she was tenacious. It was, she reflected, quite possibly the stupidest thing she’d done in her life, and she had to admit that she’d made a few foolish decisions in her day.

To Sir Phillip, With Love Quotes by Julia Quinn - Goodreads To Sir Phillip, With Love Quotes by Julia Quinn - Goodreads

Georgette Heyer would turn over in her grave at the lack of chaperones but at least this set things up for an amazing and very funny scene when all the brothers turn up together to defend Eloise's honour. Meanwhile, Phillip is struggling to care for his twin children, Oliver and Amanda, since his wife’s passing, though he does not disclose this to Eloise in her letters. He hadn’t wanted to use the main entrance, where he might be seen by his children, and besides, the kitchen door was closer by a good forty yards.

I know,” Eloise said, wondering if this was a scolding, and if so, why was her mother choosing to do it now? If he'd yelled one more word, spent one more minute speaking to her in that mocking voice, she would have broke. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code.

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Detailed Review Summary of To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia

Her mother had spent so many years urging her to find a husband; as much as Eloise adored her, it would be difficult to eat crow and say that she should have listened. She had the entire letter memorized, and the delicate pressed flower, which was actually more pink than red, was safely protected between the pages of a book she’d nipped from her brother’s library. Even now, more than a month after it had happened, he couldn’t quite believe that the sun had had the temerity to tease him so. He hadn’t seen his children yet today, and he supposed he ought to, but he didn’t want to spoil the day by saying something stern, which he inevitably seemed to do.Then he pulled her along to the shore, careful to keep her face above water, even though she didn’t seem to be breathing.

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn - Goodreads Editions of To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn - Goodreads

And if not halfway, then far enough to ensure that they wouldn’t find it too terribly easy to follow her trail.She was always happy to be unmarried, so long as it was with her best friend Penelope, but now even she had married.

Bridgerton: To Sir Phillip, With Love: Bridgertons Book 5

Their chemistry was INSANE, and can I just say - Julia Quinn certainly upped her game when writing sex scenes, because this book was the hottest of the series. This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. He supposed he must have alluded to this in one of his many letters to the mysterious Eloise Bridgerton, because he had sent off his proposal of not-quite-marriage-but-maybe-something-leading-up-to-it over a month ago, and the silence on her part had been deafening, especially since she usually responded to his letters with charming alacrity. He couldn’t marry anyone until his prescribed period of mourning was completed, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t look.He skidded and stumbled down the hill leading to the lake, then had just enough presence of mind to yank off his coat and boots before diving into the freezing cold water. Violet turns up too to give her motherly advice and though her part is short you just get all these fond memories of when she was with Daphne in “The Duke and I”.