Friends Though Divided vs Wide is the water: Which Should You Read?

Friends Though Divided G. A. Henty · 1883 ★★★★☆ 3.7 332 pages · ≈ 6 h 09 m · Challenging

“It was a pleasant afternoon in the month of July, 1642, when three young people sat together on a shady bank at the edge of a wood some three miles from Oxford.”

My dear lads: Although so long a time has elapsed since the great civil war in England, men are still almost as much divided as they were then as to the merits of the quarrel, almost as warm partisans of the one side or…

Wide is the water Jane Aiken Hodge · 1981 ★★★★☆ 3.8 240 pages · ≈ 4 h 27 m · Moderate

2nd book in the Purchas/Purchis saga. At the end of Judas Flowering, Hart and Mercy were reunited and preparing to marry. Wide is the Water opens with Hart leaving Mercy to find his cousins in New England while he…