Best for: Those looking for a Victorian-set novel about England that isn’t happy and (spoiler alert) doesn’t end in a happy romance. In a nutshell: Alex Chase is miserable and cannot find a way to be happy. Worth quoting: “The despair that invades an undeveloped being is the blackest in the world, because of its utter want of perspective.” “What do girls want to write to one another for? They can’t have anything to say.” “One suffered until one could bear no more, and then […]