Having a friend for the sake of friendship is outside of Agatha’s experience as an adult. Griffin and Flood (as they refer to each other) begin their very slow burn relationship as a correspondence. Penelope is married to a sailor who is often gone for years at a time. She meets Penelope Flood when a swarm of bees is discovered in her printworks library. Her son is more interested in going to the speeches of political firebrands and making eyes at her apprentice, Eliza. When the book opens, she has been widowed two years and is struggling to keep her printing business going until her son Sydney is mature enough to take over. Agatha Griffin was a minor character in Lady’s Guide, the sharp-eyed and unsentimental printer of Lucy’s book. Like Lady’s Guide, Care and Feeding focuses on the hidden life of women in late Regency England. I received this as an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.
When the sequel, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows became available on NetGalley I was so excited. Last year I loved Olivia Waite’s The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics.
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