![]() ![]() Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. The servants at Longbourn estate-only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic-take centre stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. ![]() Now including the full text of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice!Ī brilliantly imagined, irresistible below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a story of the romance, intrigue and drama among the servants of the Bennet household, a triumphant tale of defying society's expectations, and an illuminating glimpse of working-class lives in Regency England. ![]()
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