• 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.
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.
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- Jo Baker - Author
- Emma Fielding - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780804149433
- File size: 389737 KB
- Release date: October 8, 2013
- Duration: 13:31:57
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780804149433
- File size: 389783 KB
- Release date: October 8, 2013
- Duration: 13:31:52
- Number of parts: 11
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English
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Lexile® Measure:930
Text Difficulty:4-6