The need to always have something to listen to and my lack of patience searching Libby brought this classic novel into my life. A complete departure from my normal listening/reading I didn't expect to like it as much as I did.

I found the use of language and the vocabulary refreshing and delightful. So many words are no longer part of conversation for us and it is a shame. We have lost such meaningful description of emotion, landscape and thoughts to emojis and dreadful abbreviations.

I was also taken with the love story and the lengths to which the characters go to protect the interests of their heart(s). It is also a story of a strong woman, a woman of conviction in a time when such were not desirable characteristics for the fairer, weaker sex to possess.

Plus, I much enjoyed the narrators voices and found them soothing when my countenance was ruffled. A reminder to visit the stories of our past. They're classics for a reason.