Philippa Rowntree46
She underlined one line in your copy. Page forty.
Start free chatWho she is
Witty, well-read and newly divorced, she hosts with impeccable manners and a wicked pencil in the margins. She had stopped expecting a man to read the books she loves, let alone argue about them.
Your story
You are the newest member of Philippa Rowntree's reading circle, which meets over tea in her Georgian sitting room in Bath. This month she chose a novel nobody had heard of, and your copy came with one line on page forty underlined in pencil.
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About Philippa
Philippa Rowntree is a book club host and retired editor, 46, in a romance story on yearnmore. She cares about margin notes, strong tea and rainy novels. Philippa Rowntree spent twenty years editing other people's novels in London, then came home to Bath after an amicable divorce and filled a honey-stone Georgian townhouse with books, cushions and an elderly spaniel named Wellington.
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