From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of secrets, romance, and two women bound together across time by a shared dream.
Tenley Roth’s first book was a runaway bestseller. Now that her second book is due, she’s locked in fear. Can she repeat her earlier success or is she a fraud who has run out of inspiration?
With pressure mounting from her publisher, Tenley is weighted with writer’s block. But when her estranged mother calls asking Tenley to help her through chemotherapy, she packs up for Florida where she meets handsome furniture designer Jonas Sullivan and discovers the story her heart’s been missing.
A century earlier, another woman wrote at the same desk with hopes and fears of her own. Born during the Gilded Age, Birdie Shehorn is the daughter of the old money Knickerbockers. Under the strict control of her mother, her every move is decided ahead of time, even whom she’ll marry. But Birdie has dreams she doesn’t know how to realize. She wants to tell stories, write novels, make an impact on the world. When she discovers her mother has taken extreme measures to manipulate her future, she must choose between submission and security or forging a brand new way all on her own.
Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds, but fate has bound them together in a way time cannot erase.
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Summary
The Writing Desk by Rachel Hauck will capture you and not let go until the very last scene. Tenley and Birdie are from two very different times but their lives intercept in the most beautiful way.
Birdie is from the Gilded Age and quite different from other women. She was allowed to go to university before being forced into a loveless marriage. Her mother was quite the witch. Her attraction and love for Eli was beautiful and heartbreaking. You are on the edge of your seat the entire book hoping that something will come and save them from their arranged marriages so that they can be together. Birdie’s passion is writing stories and she hides in the attic at her writing desk to do so.
Tenley is from the 20th century and is having writers block after having a knock out hit. Her estranged mother asks her to visit which starts a chain of events. Tenley meets Jonas who is trying to by the writing desks that she has fallen in love with at her mom's house. Jonas likes to make furniture which reminded me of While You Were Sleeping.
The books is hilarious and heartbreaking. The similarities in the two stories are subtle and beautifully done.
I highly recommend this book and will be rereading it again.
sexual content: kissing and knowledge of sex after marriage but no details