One Day’s Courtship is a hilarious romance novel that circles a canoe trip taken by two artists, John Trenton and Eva Sommerton, who were strangers before the day of the voyage. Their goal is a trip to a picturesque local landmark. Interestingly, the novel starts with John Trenton reading a letter he was writing to his friends over to himself. It is an enjoyable story with easy-to-read language, a gripping plot, and excellent characterization. The novel describes the circumstances that lead to both the artists taking the trip together, their experiences and interactions on the boat, and several interesting events that follow.
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Robert Barr (1849 – 1912), was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Barr usually wrote with an ironic twist with a humorous, appealing narrator describing the story.