{"id":24827,"date":"2025-08-14T16:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24827"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:27:01","slug":"hither-page-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24827","title":{"rendered":"Hither, Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hither, Page<\/em> (2019) Cat Sebastian<\/a> (Page & Sommers #1)<\/p>\n

\"Hither,Set in England in 1946<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t hold it against him. He had a bad war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He ought to have developed a callus over whatever part of his heart was meant for mourning, but instead, it was like a wound that never quite healed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNo, I assure you that I\u2019m farther gone than most. And I wasn\u2019t even a soldier. All I did was, as you said, stitch people up. What right do I have to\u2014\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d Page laid a hand on his shoulder. \u201cWhat you\u2019re not going to do is talk about shell shock or combat fatigue or brain fuckery as if it\u2019s a special treat that you haven\u2019t earned.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He sat in the rearmost pew and let his gaze drift to the window of the three hares. His uncle had argued that it was a symbol of the holy trinity, but also a representation of past, present, and future, all tangled together, infinitely cyclical, and in the end, indistinguishable from one another… if the three hares represented past, present, and future, that meant the future was always touched by the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Mildred Hoggett, Dr James Sommers, Leo Page, Sir Alexander Templeton, Colonel Bertram Armstrong, Edward Norris, Mary Griffiths, Polly Griffiths, Owen Griffiths, Miss Cora Delacourt, Miss Edith Pickering, Marston, Wendy Smythe, Agnes, Mrs Clemens, Mrs Patel, Edwin Nesbitt, Sally Bright<\/p>\n

Published by Cat Sebastian<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He ought to have developed a callus over whatever part of his heart was meant for mourning, but instead, it was like a wound that never quite healed. \u201cNo, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192,30,668,292,204,33,207,8,148,41,26,56],"tags":[147,544,771,632,212],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-good","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-cat-sebastian","tag-mm","tag-page-sommers","tag-post-ww-ii","tag-ptsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6sr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25624,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25624","url_meta":{"origin":24827,"position":0},"title":"Hither, Page","author":"Michelle","date":"January 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hither, Page (2019) Cat Sebastian (Page & Sommers #1) Set in England in 1946. 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