Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK - The servants take center stage 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.Author: Jo Baker
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/17/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780345806970
ISBN10: 0345806972
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Jo Baker was born in Lancashire, England, and educated at Oxford University and Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of the novels The UnderÂtow, Offcomer, The Mermaid's Child, and The Telling. She lives in Lancaster.