The Q

This has quickly become one of my comfort books.

Setting: regency-like era but in a European city (Rhysdon) that doesn't exist in our world.

Quincy - a prickly young lady who runs the nation's most prominent newspaper, "The Q" - finds out she can't keep running it unless she accomplishes a list of things set out by her deceased uncle. Except she doesn't know what the list contains. And she has no patience for fluff of any kind.

Her uncle taked the printing press' handsome young solicitor, James Arch, with monitoring Quincy's progress on the list. Arch is about as happy about this as Quincy is.

I cannot recommend this book enough. A comedy(?) intermixed with deep commentary on human welfare, loss, love, and the costs of opening your heart.