bed in the original edition published by the American Avon Books (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers). In Italy, the novel was published it Novels Mondadori with the title of "Phllip To Sir with Love" .
Warning: spoilers.
After An offer from a gentleman I could say that this is another of the novels a little 'stretched' the saga Bridgerton. But that does not mean I do not have enjoyed reading. There is something enjoyable always in the stories told by Julia Quinn .
You had to find a husband for Eloise Bridgerton and so, all of a sudden, it turned out a retiring widower father of two restless twins, who inherited the baronetcy from his brother who died at Waterloo and who lives for the more holed up in the greenhouse of his mansion in Gloucestershire. Sir Phillip Crane's novel begins in an unusually somber and dramatic by the standards of Julia Quinn's wife Marina, suffering from chronic depression, attempting suicide in the lake near their home; Phillip saves her, but she died after three days due to lung infection has arisen for the icy plunge. A wife is not married for love, but to fulfill a duty, because she was the girlfriend of his brother who died in war. And this marriage with Phillip had inherited the duties in respect of the property and had abandoned their plans to the life of a student of botany at the University of Cambridge. Then had come the twins, Oliver and Amanda, and his wife was finally sealed in its abyss of sadness, imprisoning them forever in their room to cry. So Phillip, freed from the weight of gloom lasted eight years, feels the urgent need to give a mother to their children, who, in reaction, are now giving vent to an irrepressible exuberance and grind rulers, creating terrible mischief that they all run away .
Phillip's approach towards his son, who loves deeply, is clumsy, and backward and unable to control the fear of not knowing when they should punish forced him to stay away from them and take refuge more and more of its plants in the greenhouse. Trying not to hear the noises of the two children, trying desperately to get his attention going to make disasters worse every day. 
In this surreal situation come the letters Bridgerton Eloise, who was a cousin of his late wife. Eloise loves to write letters and so a note to express condolences turns into a series of correspondence, it unexpectedly the brief Phillip replied each time, going to almost romantic gestures, such as inserting a flower pressed between the pages. Eloise, struck by the sudden marriage of her best friend Penelope with his brother Colin, feels a sting of jealousy for the feelings of the two and is no longer so convinced to spend the rest of his life as a spinster aunt, having lost those who, in his fantasy, he should share with her that destiny. When Phillip Crane in a letter hints at the possibility that she may visit him in Gloucestershire to see if their characters would be suitable for a union of marriage, the decision is positive Eloise catches the ball. Disappears during the dance of the Duke of Hastings, Colin Bridgerton that fateful ad that concluded with a bang and part of the previous novel in the night to a new life, leaving a note for her that no one will find and causing a commotion in the clan of Bridgerton.
The problem is that the arrival of Eloise Crane at home, although there was a kind of invitation, arrive without warning and the reaction of Phillip is clumsy, rough and very different from Eloise as she had imagined. After refusing many offers of marriage for love and wait for the ideal man, certainly not Sir Phillip Crane presented himself as the romantic hero and delicate that she had thought to see between the lines of his letters. Phillip has within himself a world of feelings who can not outsource, but has them locked up for too long and is not ready. Eloise does not agree to go home defeat, of having to explain to his family and his irrational behavior, gritting his teeth, is to make sure not to doversene then repent. An attempt should be made after all.
Phillip is a nice-looking and vigorous man, who has lived for eight years without satisfying their needs with a woman or female Eloise'd dive instantly with great enthusiasm. Indeed, the passion that inspires the girl, plus the fact that that character is assertive and talkative for him the panacea of \u200b\u200ball problems of household management to take him up the tempo and marry her without delay. Matter that is accelerated by the lowering in Gloucestershire Bridgerton of the four brothers, determined to get his scalp or force him to wash the shame of virtue in danger of Eloise by repairing the marriage. The interlude Bridgerton of males compared to the unprepared, but always honorable Sir Phillip Crane, is the funniest moment of the novel and makes it totally deserves to be read.
Eloise is annoyed by the intrusion of his family and momentarily loses its determination to pursue the strange relationship with her alleged suitor. But marriage must one do. So between Eloise and Phillip you create an exciting and perfect understanding between the sheets, while the rest will be solved with a little 'patience and the right compromises.
The sweetness and affection of a mother do wonders for the little devils Oliver and Amanda and Phillip for the rough-hearted and tormented. Small denominations and mutual closer and closer the two newlyweds, to the mouth of strong and passionate love Eloise and dreamed that Phillip would never have dared hope to find. He was looking for a mother to her children and a woman to be entrusted with the development of the house, not to feel more alone and helpless. By Eloise learns to be a father, a husband and a man proud of himself.
A fairy tale, a bit 'of elementary psychology, tender and funny dialogues. Unpretentious, but a few hours of carefree reading is always good.
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