Longbourn's Songbird
by Beau North
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Pub Date Oct 23 2017 | Archive Date Jan 16 2018
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Description
South Carolina, 1948 - Elizabeth Bennet is looking forward to a life of few surprises on her family's farm. Longbourn is a place of comfort and quiet security, a haven from the heartache of her past, where she can sing to heart's content, comfortable in the cage she’s built for herself.
When Charles Bingley buys the property neighboring Longbourn Farms, his best friend Will Darcy sees an opportunity he can't miss. The postwar economy is booming, and the young, ambitious tycoon is determined to reap the benefits...until a chance encounter in the Netherfield woods changes everything, making him question the man he is, and the man he wants to be.
If Will can look beyond his own rigid expectations, can Elizabeth learn to forgive and live fully, free from her cage? Longbourn’s Songbird is a vivid reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, shining a spotlight on the opportunities and injustices of postwar America, a spellbinding tale of loss, of love, and of letting go.
Advance Praise
"Excellent writing and Beau North's imagination keep this novel compelling all the way to the end." --Her Story Arc - Feminist Book of the Month, February 2016
"North gives a voice to a whole new demographic of characters and expertly navigates the social confines of conservative Southern expectations of the time." -- San Francisco Book Review
Featured Reviews
Mina V, Reviewer
Wow. what can i say. This book will certainly stay with me for a while . Started this book then i went away a few days, so did not pick it up for a week which slowed me down at the start of the book, but by the time I got into it I flew through it and could not put this down. Thanks you netgalley
Mystica V, Reviewer
Longbourn's Songbird takes our usual P&P characters and imbues them with stronger characteristics of the originals which makes them literally very challenging. The setting in America in 1948 is till very Victorian. There are distinct standards of behavior for young ladies and though the Bennetts are a bit more modern than most, they still live in a society where "what people would say" seems important.
Elizabeth and Jane are the main characters of the story with Bingley and Darcy both following suit. However Charlotte Lucas role becomes a rather interesting one and Anne de Bourgh and Lady Catherine are strangely rather impoverished here. The relationships which develop between Anne and Charlotte would have scandalized Jane Austen society but here it happily ends well.
I liked the role that Elizabeth played. Feisty still but daring and very caring of Darcy. Darcy in turn was very well put in this story and the whole story was extremely balanced keeping the main story of P&P but adding a very unusual twist to the story.
I had to read this in one go and would give it five stars because of this!
Goodreads and Amazon review posted on 13/11/2017. Review on my blog will be posted 9/12/2017. Also linked to my FB page.
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