This one is a rarity -- a Jane Austen sequel/reworking that is actually enjoyable. The novel that is being recast, as it were, is Pride and Prejudice, but it is retold from of the point-of-view of the servants, mostly from the elder of the two maids-of-all-work, Sarah. Her pithy observations of the ...
Usually get annoyed at all the different takes contemporary authors out on P&P but this does look interesting. Got it as an ARC from my husband's store
This was a bit of a disappointment. I had read all the rave reviews, was super excited to read it, and then it didn't live up to my expectations. This is definitely a case of "It's me, not you." The book itself is fine. I just realized, about half-way through, that if it didn't have the Pride & Prej...
For Jane Austen fans: I usually can't stand it when modern authors have the chutzpah to set books in Austen's universe--I have no interest in reading what about might have happened to Elizabeth and Darcy's daughters. But Jo Baker's Longbourn is a brilliant exception; she captures a lot of the feel o...
Finally - a fresh, original take on Jane Austen. This is the "Downstairs" to Pride and Prejudice's "Upstairs" - the story of the servants at Longbourn, who have their own lives and dramas with surprisingly little reference to the family that employs them. Now, however, as with anything fresh and ori...
It’s strange that I don’t really read a lot of the perspective retellings, because I find the idea of the perspective flip of a classic novel or story fascinating; I just…haven’t read that many. (I haven’t read Wide Sargasso Sea. To be fair, I only read Jane Eyre a few years ago and I didn’t love it...
Austen fans looking to gain more insight into Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy’s or Jane and Mr. Bingley’s relationships will be disappointed, as Ms. Baker makes it obvious from the very beginning that this is not a retelling of Ms. Austen’s story. All of the major action that happens in the original is ment...
A look at the lives of the servants behind the story of Pride and Prejudice, particularly concentrating on one servant, Sarah and her involvement with some of the other servants around and with the people of the story. It does reflect how the servants weren't really taken into account by the upper ...
Longbourn by Jo Baker is the retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the Longbourn servants. I received a copy free to review via Netgalley. I should start by saying straight off that this retelling doesn’t have Austen’s sharp insight and witty dialogue, but that w...
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