{"id":23752,"date":"2024-07-06T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23752"},"modified":"2024-07-21T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:32:41","slug":"hen-fever-a-sapphic-victorian-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23752","title":{"rendered":"Hen Fever: A Sapphic Victorian Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hen Fever: A Sapphic Victorian Romance<\/em><\/a> (2022) Olivia Waite<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hen<\/a>Set in England in 1856<\/p>\n

The Bickerton Christmas Poultry Show is the event of the year, but one that has driven apart the citizens of the town.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d been fast friends once, until they\u2019d caught the fancy. Now rumor was Miss Inch had trained her Pinwheel Bantams to attack Miss Rushcliff\u2019s Scots Dumpies on sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(I)t\u2019s only been ten years\u2014Mrs. Outerbridge alone has grudges that are twice and three times as old as that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Harriet Boyne and her friends moved to Thornycroft Hall after inheriting it from a woman who they became close to during the Crimean war. <\/p>\n

Lydia Wraxhall has never left home, and doesn’t think she ever will.<\/p>\n

She\u2019d believed she\u2019d only find love again if she left Bickerton, but she had been too cowardly to leave. It was daunting, to uproot an entire life\u2014especially for a love you could never name outside of stolen whispers. Especially when her parents had already lost one child: her clear duty was to comfort them in her brother\u2019s place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Lydia and Harriet meet over a flock of lost chickens, they commiserate over grief and loss, and then caring for the chickens.<\/p>\n

This is a very cozy story, with a HEA not only for Lydia and Harriet, but also for the community of Bickerton.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Lydia Wraxhall, Harriet Boyne, Miss Inch , Miss Rushcliff, Peter Wraxhall, Lady Eccleston, Mrs. Goodfellow, Lizzie Crangle, Arun Dixit<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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