Sophie's Reviews > A Gentleman Undone

This is a very delicate and deliberate book. The writing is beautiful and tender, despite the characters wanting nothing to do with tenderness or romanticism. These are two broken birds who want to survive and be honorable. They've erected a fragile strucutre of life and relationship around themselves in order to do that.
The heroine, Lydia, is clever and smart and hard and tough. The hero, Will, is hanging by a thread and does all he can so that he can look at himself in the mirror.
This book is not perfect but it is like holding two broken baby birds in your hands while reading.

CWs: deaths of family and friends, disparaging talk of prostitution and kept women