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  1. Rec 9

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    Eloise and Cressida, along with half the women of the ton (not Penelope, she stays in London, keeping up morale as a columnist), go to the countryside during World War II, arranged by the Women's Land Army. When the boys aren’t around, what is a girl to do?

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    08 Jun 2026

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    The one with the pig. And the Women’s Land Army.

  2. Rec 13

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    Exiled to Wales, Cressida Cowper finds solace in the small freedoms she can find from day to day. True, her Aunt Joanna does not have access to the lavish wardrobe she once possessed, but her library is formidable. However, the tentative peace Cressida has found is soon upended when her aunt's friend, the young Lord Penwood, comes to stay with them while his country home undergoes repairs.

    Orphaned at a young age, Lord Penwood harbors a secret: she is masquerading as her estranged brother. Once determined to never marry or partake in London Society, she finds herself reassessing those choices when she meets Cressida Cowper, a fiery and willful woman who appears to loathe the notion of marriage--perhaps for similar reasons as Penwood. But Cressida once tried to share her heart with another and was spurned. Can Penwood earn her trust and affection?

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    06 May 2026

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    Brilliant work from a brilliant writer.

    Lord Penwood is a lesbian who inhabits her brother’s place. This is the love Cressida deserves.

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    Cressida Cowper was not a nice lady. She was not kind or quiet or demure, the way a lady ought to be. She didn't shine. She didn't curtsey deep enough. Her styles were too noisy. Her sleeves too big. And she was downright cruel.

    These are some of the reasons she'd been given for why fewer and fewer men asked for a spot on her dance card each season. Which was fine with her, perhaps if she held out for another couple of years her parents would forget about her entirely and she could transition to spinsterhood in peace.

    She had been fine being mean. She was good at it. It was one of the few things she was good at. As she aged, her demeanor got harsher and her sleeves got bigger and her prospects slimmed.

    And then she'd been reintroduced to Eloise Bridgerton at a summer house party and it had all gone to shit. Because now she had ideas about women and competition and being nice and apologizing and caring and living authentically.

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    16 Feb 2025

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    I cry every time, but eventually with happiness. The one with the ball.🏀

  4. Rec 54

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    “It does not matter, Cressida,” She says, sitting down beside her on the, certainly not made for sitting, little drawer in front of the window closest to Eloise’s table, “letters still exist and I would be delighted to exchange them with you.”

    Cressida is afraid of putting meaning where there is none to put but she thinks she sees in Eloise’s eyes a desperate plea for agreement. It appears so concrete that it leaves Cressida speechless, she finds.

    “Wouldn’t you?” Eloise asks when she doesn’t say anything and the desperate plea transforms to apprehensiveness and fearful disappointment.

    “Yes,” Cressida swallows, “Yes, I would.” She gets up and says, more to herself than to Eloise, “It is settled then.”

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    19 Feb 2026

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    Surpringly sweet Cressida and Eloise and a happy ending.

  5. Rec 69

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    Perhaps an overlooked point of contention within their (fairly) new courtship: Cressida Cowper is too diligent a student regarding the finer points of feminine etiquette and flirting while Eloise Bridgerton is wholly uninterested (and uneducated) in feminine etiquette.

    Or: Eloise is woefully oblivious and Cressida is perpetually (sexually) frustrated.

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    21 Mar 2026

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    Poor Cressida. Oblivious Eloise. Perfect language.