Quinn doesn’t want to say that people who haven’t read the books will be confused by it, but they might not understand the level of humor or where it comes from. Using her wits to survive a series of outlandish mishaps, Miss Butterworth must escape her terrible aunt, who forces Butterworth to earn her place in the home via tiresome chores. The story, which shows up throughout Quinn’s Bridgerton book series as a fictional story that many characters read at some point, follows Miss Priscilla Butterworth, who comes from a happy home but suffers tragedy when her entire family is ravaged by smallpox, leaving her cruelly separated from her two still-living relatives - her mother and her grandmother. The joy is in Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, a madcap romantic adventure complete with talking pigeons, a kind of inside joke for readers of the Bridgerton books. So, I’m really looking for the joy in this one.” And I know my father and my sister wouldn’t want me to feel that way. The fact that this incredibly unfair thing happened doesn’t mean that my life in its entirety is sad. “I’ve reached a point now where I realized that you can have a life that is happy and joyful that still has incredibly sad, tragic things in it. “She is a walking, talking miracle,” says Quinn, who manages to talk about what she describes as the most tragic day of her life with grace and strength.

Quinn’s stepmother lived but suffered a head injury that makes her no longer able to live independently.

Charles’ dog also died in the crash, and Charles’ husband died five months later from injuries sustained in the accident. Last summer, five years after that conversation, Quinn’s sister and their father, Stephen Lewis Cotler, were killed by a drunk driver. The book, which comes out on May 10, is a collaboration with her younger sister Violet Charles, a cartoonist. “It was definitely in the summer because I remember talking about it in my dad’s backyard,” Julia Quinn reminisces about the first time she discussed the idea for her first graphic novel, Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron.

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