HOPELESSLY DEVOTED

What better way to indulge your hopeless romantic side than with a heart-wrenching tale?

From Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook to Jane Austen‘s definitive Pride & Prejudice, we guarantee you’ll fall hard for these timeless romantic novels.

Emma

By Jane Austen

Inside the pages:

Beautiful, clever, rich – and single –Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage.

Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.

The Duke and I

By Julia Quinn

Inside the pages:

From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince.

Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her family, everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon, Duke of Hastings. Yet an encounter with his best friend’s sister offers another option.

If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The plan works like a charm-at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule…

The Notebook

By Nicholas Sparks

Inside the pages: Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty. But he is haunted by memories of the beautiful girl he met there years before. A girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents didn’t approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. When Allie Hamilton shows up on his doorstep, exactly as he has held her in his memory for all these years, Noah has one last chance to win her back. Only this time, it’s not just her parents in the way – Allie is engaged and she’s not a woman to go back on her promises. The Notebook is the love story to end all love stories – it will break your heart, heal it back up and break it all over again.

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Bronte

Inside the pages: Set in the early 19th century, Charlotte Bronte’s world-renowned novel details the life of Jane Eyre, from her turbulent childhood to her time spent as governess for the discourteous Mr. Rochester. Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall.

Me Before You

By Jojo Moyes

Inside the pages:

Will needed Lou as much as she needed him, but will her love be enough to save his life? Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time.