A review by lawrenceevalyn
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

5.0

I’m finished, and I miss this book already! The extensive paratextual materials meant I didn’t realise I was coming to the end until suddenly (too soon!) it was over! This is one of my favourite reads in a long time, and I think this is what I was looking for in all those romance and SF novels I was dissatisfied with: this story is both serious and comforting, offering a sense of queer history but not as a wish-fulfillment re-skin of the present. I highly recommend reading it to anyone who is remotely interested, though I also recommend skipping most of the introduction until after you’ve read the novel itself. (It’s good, but it starts to give away too much of the story, and place it at too much of a distance.) If anyone knows more books like this one, I want them!