To Sir Phillip, With Love

This was an easy read for summer days at the pool. However, I watched the “Bridgerton” series on Netflix before reading any of the books, so the Eloise I met on the screen is not quite the Eloise in this book. Is she clever? As ever. Is she opinionated and a rambler? Absolutely. But I felt the screen Eloise had more gumption and gall than the one of the book. There are glimpses of her, but the idea of Eloise Bridgerton being swept up in her loneliness at 28 and sneaking off to see if her pen-pal could be the one seemed a bit far fetched. Perhaps if I had met Book Eloise before Screen Eloise, I would have enjoyed this more? I'm not sure.