dangermousie | Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

The one about an aristocrat confined to an asylum after a stroke renders him incapable of speech and a Quaker lady who becomes his nurse...

All you guys who recommended this book, I am totally in your debt. I just finished it and am slightly breathless. It was the most intense and heartbreaking* romance novel I've ever read. Anyone who hasn't read it, and likes amazingly-written romance novels (this is by far the best one I read ever) with major hurt/comfort and hero whose very existence depends on heroine, what are you waiting for?

My one quibble was the heroine - I liked her but became increasingly impatient with her by the end of the book. She seems realistic enough for a Quaker but prim and pious is pretty much antithetical to me. By the time she got to worrying about how it was sinful that she was really into making love with her husband, because they were doing it in daylight, I just wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up and go buy a red dress or something.

* I don't consider Acheron a romance book. That one gave me nightmares for weeks.