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Longbourn

By: Jo Baker
Narrated by: Emma Fielding
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Pride and Prejudice was only half the story

If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them.

In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.

Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic - into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars - and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.

©2013 Jo Baker (P)2013 Random House Audio Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Regency Heartfelt

Editorial reviews

"Captivating... A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world beyond the margins and outside the parlors of Pride and Prejudice." (Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements)

Critic reviews

"A triumph: a splendid tribute to Austen’s original but, more importantly, a joy in its own right, a novel that contrives both to provoke the intellect and, ultimately, to stop the heart.... Like Austen, Baker has written an intoxicating love story but, also like Austen, the pleasure of her novel lies in its wit and fierce intelligence.... Baker not only creates a richly imagined story of her own but recasts Austen’s novel in a startlingly fresh light.... Inspired." (The Guardian)
Compelling Characters • Historical Authenticity • Melodious Voice • Unique Perspective • Rich Descriptions

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I thought this book might be superficial but it is anything but. Very convincing detail and well thought out.

Very well done

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I highly recommend this book. Incredibly well written. Makes Jane Austin's characters pale in comparison to the servants.

Fantastic!

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it just feels like someone wanted to get even with the original characters. it has some merits but the descriptions feel to filmic, like the author is imaging a camera shot sometimes, and those shots don't get across very well.

feels a bit like fan fiction

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Sorry, maybe it's too much Downton Abbey or Jane Austin, but the lifestyle, values, priorities of the English of this era become so tedious and frivolous that I looked forward to the end of this well narrated book.

Is there any society more tedious than the English

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An amazing story so beautifully written and told. I enjoyed every moment. Perfection! And highly recommended.

Beautiful

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