Shuggie Bain
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It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected...
Sun, Sea and Small-Town Secrets
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Sebastian Conway is a professional psychologist and accomplished criminal profiler, but when one of...
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Our Little Lies
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How far would you go to protect your perfect life? Marianne has a life others dream of. A...
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The Witch of Torinia
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Divide... and conquer. The thrilling new epic fantasy continues! Lady Lucinda della Rovera, the...
Rediscovering the Earth
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Most people recognize that something is wrong, so they blame their leaders in governments, industry,...
The Wangs vs. the World
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A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only...
Death (The Four Horsemen #4) by T.A. Chase
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Death, the Pale Rider and the most feared member of the Four Horsemen, has been searching through...
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Charlotte is a continuation of Charlotte Lucas’ story after we leave her in Pride and Prejudice. She marries Mr Collins, and whilst we may remember him as something of a buffoon, he is quite different here. He still waxes lyrical about Lady de Bourgh - she does pay the bills after all - but he seems to be a good, loving father, and a decent husband.
There’s some really good insight into a lot of these characters from the original book: Lady de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh (who becomes friends with Charlotte), Mr Collins, Lizzy and Charlotte herself. All were richly described, and it felt good to be back with them.
What really surprised me was Charlottes inner life: the passion, her heartache, how capable she was as the manager of a house and its servants.
And there was quite a surprising turn of events that I’ll say nothing of, but it was quite exciting and lovely.
I’m glad I’ve read this book at last. If you’re an Austen reader/ fan, I think you’d be interested in this. It’s probably a bit more risqué than Austen would have written at the time, but it’s certainly in the same vein.
Recommended.