Flowers from the Storm
The most critically acclaimed genre romance novel of its era. A Regency romance about a dissolute duke who suffers a stroke and a Quaker woman who cares for him. Kinsale writes the hero's struggle to regain language and selfhood with such specificity and emotion that the romance becomes almost incidental to the psychological portrait. Beloved by genre fans and literary readers alike.
Maddy's plain-spoken thees and thys take fifty pages of acclimation, and her late-book indecision (accept Jervaulx, refuse him, flee, return) cycles past the point of sympathy into reader exasperation. The asylum chapters are the best thing here and also the slowest, and the resolution asks Quaker conviction to fold quickly so the genre can have its ending.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
