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Longbourn
Jo Baker
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Description for Longbourn
Paperback. 'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.' It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK
'Utterly engrossing' Guardian
It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.
What readers are saying:
'A novel to be savoured'
'Highly recommended'
'Very enjoyable exploration of the background to Pride and Prejudice'
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552779517
SKU
V9780552779517
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-41
About Jo Baker
Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and The Queen's University, Belfast. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, the playwright Daragh Carville, and their two children. Longbourn is due to be made into a film produced by Focus Features.
Reviews for Longbourn
Inspired...Baker has written an intoxicating love story but, also like Austen, the pleasure of her novel lies in its wit and fierce intelligence. Longbourn is a profound exploration of injustice, of poverty and dependence, of loyalty...a novel that contrives both to provoke the intellect and, ultimately, to stop the heart
Guardian
Jo Baker gives us the story from the servants' perspectives and pulls off the seemingly impossible: a completely fresh take on Jane Austen. Utterly engrossing.
Guardian
ONES TO WATCH Just enough Darcy to delight, as well as being a fascinating insight into the harsh working conditions of life in a grand house 200 years ago
Good Housekeeping
Debut novelist Jo Baker takes the reader on a journey back to a version of Regency England that is as much about poverty and war as social comedy and romance
Metro
This clever glimpse of Austen’s universe clouded by washday steam is so compelling it leaves you wanting to read the next chapter in the lives below stairs
Daily Express
GREAT READS: Pride and Prejudice reimagined as a mysterious manservant stirs up passions in the Bennet household both upstairs and down
Woman and Home
Captivating and delicious. A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world beyond the margins and outside the parlours of Pride and Prejudice
Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE
The much-loved Pride and Prejudice is shaken up and given the grit that Jane Austen could never include - with great success
Evening Standard
A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling
Financial Times
Superb... The lightest of touches by a highly accomplished young writer
Mail on Sunday
Guardian
Jo Baker gives us the story from the servants' perspectives and pulls off the seemingly impossible: a completely fresh take on Jane Austen. Utterly engrossing.
Guardian
ONES TO WATCH Just enough Darcy to delight, as well as being a fascinating insight into the harsh working conditions of life in a grand house 200 years ago
Good Housekeeping
Debut novelist Jo Baker takes the reader on a journey back to a version of Regency England that is as much about poverty and war as social comedy and romance
Metro
This clever glimpse of Austen’s universe clouded by washday steam is so compelling it leaves you wanting to read the next chapter in the lives below stairs
Daily Express
GREAT READS: Pride and Prejudice reimagined as a mysterious manservant stirs up passions in the Bennet household both upstairs and down
Woman and Home
Captivating and delicious. A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world beyond the margins and outside the parlours of Pride and Prejudice
Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE
The much-loved Pride and Prejudice is shaken up and given the grit that Jane Austen could never include - with great success
Evening Standard
A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling
Financial Times
Superb... The lightest of touches by a highly accomplished young writer
Mail on Sunday