It is just as well, dear Emma, you didn't mention Wuthering Heights. It is as Ill fated as can get, very romantic for the readers in retrospect, but too tramautic for the characters involved.
Your reader's letter is more Nora Ephron than Victorian era writers in my mind. And very contemporary, given all the proclamations that 60 is the new 40 (it isn't, I ought to know!)
Honesty is, of course, the best option, and guilt is a party pooper. BUT, it is not always an option, and If one has not been throwing caution to the wind all their lives, the sixties rings a bell. That maybe they should.
Wise, true and hilarious. If only you had been around to advise Tess, that whole tragic mess might have been avoided! Brilliant.
It is just as well, dear Emma, you didn't mention Wuthering Heights. It is as Ill fated as can get, very romantic for the readers in retrospect, but too tramautic for the characters involved.
Your reader's letter is more Nora Ephron than Victorian era writers in my mind. And very contemporary, given all the proclamations that 60 is the new 40 (it isn't, I ought to know!)
Honesty is, of course, the best option, and guilt is a party pooper. BUT, it is not always an option, and If one has not been throwing caution to the wind all their lives, the sixties rings a bell. That maybe they should.
But, Emma - what if there are no rose petals?
Hmm, tricky. Head out to a charming local market, buy some roses, rip them to shreds?
Fingers crossed then!
Now we need a follow up to this letter to know what happens after the getaway!
I was thinking this myself - if the letter writer reads this, please write in again to tell us all what happened!
I'll second that ...