For me, Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers. A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane novel. In which Harriet returns to her former college to help investigate a series of serious poison pen acts and is forced to re-evaluate what she wants in this world--a cloistered existence among fellow academians (which she sees as somehow truer to one's self and one's ideals at first) or a life in the Real World, with all its messy entanglements, which includes Lord Peter.
What I love, love, love about this book (aside from the fact that it is awesomely written) is that Lord Peter lets her decide. Simply marvelous.
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Date: 4 Jan 2010 13:44 (UTC)What I love, love, love about this book (aside from the fact that it is awesomely written) is that Lord Peter lets her decide. Simply marvelous.