The release date for the English version of 'Longbourn' by
Jo Baker is Oct 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Pride and Prejudice told just part of the tale.
Sarah used to think that Elizabeth Bennet would be much more cautious with her petticoats if she washed them herself.
The servants steal the show in this enticingly imagined downstairs parody of Pride and Prejudice. The Bennet household's orphaned housemaid, Sarah, spends her days emptying the chamber pots, dusting floors, and doing laundry. But below at Longbourn, there's just as much passion, heartache, and mystery as there is above. The ordered world of the servants' hall is in danger of being totally, maybe irreversibly, upended when a strange new footman shows up.
In doing so, Jo Baker creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realised world that is entirely her own. 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.