The most critically acclaimed genre romance novel of its era. A Regency romance about a dissolute duke who suffers a stroke and a Quaker woman who cares for him. Kinsale writes the hero's struggle to regain language and selfhood with such specificity and emotion that the romance becomes almost incidental to the psychological portrait. Beloved by genre fans and literary readers alike.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.