Perhaps I should have written this a little bit closer to when I actually finished the book. As it is, I left it and it's been about two weeks since I finished the book and it may be a little stagnant in my mind. But I'll start with a brief summary.
Eight years before the story starts, Frederick Wentworth* and Anne Wentworth fall in love. They were going to get married but Anne is convinced by a friend that it's a bad idea because Wentworth is of little social consequence, being in the navy, and so she breaks it off. And that's all very sad but if you know Jane Austen, you know it's all going to work out in the end. So now, eight years later, Anne's family is in a bad financial state (common Jane Austen protag issue) and Wentworth has come back to England as a super awesome captain. Anne is also on the old side (twenty-seven -gasp-) and her prospects are looking grim.
They get thrown together, both staying in the vicinity of the Musgrove family and it appears that Captain Fred is over Anne because he seems to be into these other girls while, secretly, he's pining over Anne while at the same time harbouring hurt feelings since she, like, rejected him. That hurts. Imagine if Logan and Rory were thrown together eight years after the series finale of Gilmore Girls and you have the awkward quota that Anne and Wentworth feel.
Obviously she still loves him but she can't *say* anything. Don't be absurd. So gradually they both realize that the other is still possibly interested and, though it looks iffy at times, I never really questioned the end. I absolutely loved Wentworth's note to Anne at the end but I guess I always was a fan of the written word.
Persuasion is definitely a favourite. With such a winning story of how love lasts (Jeez, did that sound corny) and such charming and redeeming main characters (unlike some books I've read *coughWutheringHeightscough*) obviously I had to love it. I suppose I'm just a Jane Austen fan, through and through, no matter what the Bronte sisters had to say about her. I would choose Darcy/Wentworth over Heathcliff/Rochester any day.
*you can call him Fred. Oh, Fred. *tear*
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