Longbourn
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Jo Baker
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “Fans of Austen...will take particular pleasure” (People) in this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice. While Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters fuss over balls and husbands, Sarah, their orphaned housemaid, is beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When a new footman arrives at Longbourn under mysterious circumstances, the carefully choreographed world she has known all her life threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Mentioned only fleetingly in Jane Austen’s classic, here Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Regency England and, in doing so, uncovers the real world of the novel that has captivated readers’ hearts around the world for generations.
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Author
Jo Baker
Pages
352
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2013-10-08
ISBN
0385351240 9780385351249
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Felt a bit one note and I didn’t love the switch to the story about the James character towards the end (should have happened earlier?). But I liked being back in the P&P world "
Grace Eden
"A very different take on the Bennet family and the outlook of servants. Anytime I read a book that off-handedly mentions a maid or servant "fetching" something with no regard to them, I think about this book and how the maid has an entire life and feelings."
Jacquelynn Cookson
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