This week's anticipated book:
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: October 8, 2013
From barnesandnoble.com: 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.
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.
My Thoughts: This sounds like the perfect read for those of us who are fans of Jane Austen novels, as well as anyone who enjoys the drama of Upstairs Downstairs, and/or Downton Abbey. I am looking forward to curling up with this book in the cool autumn weather.
Enjoy life with books . . .
Catherine
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Waiting on Wednesday: For Jane Austen Fans and Others was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution.
Waiting on Wednesday: For Jane Austen Fans and Others was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution.
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