Insight and Suitability

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Pub Date Feb 01 2021 | Archive Date Apr 18 2021

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In this daring sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, we see Lady Catherine's daughter Anne through a new lens.


Far too long, Anne de Bourgh has been pitied, ignored, and dismissed as boring and sickly. Her hopes begin to rise when two young gentlemen, both of whom would make a great catch, start paying attention to her.


With the help of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Anne embarks on a journey to discover which beau is the best prospect as her potential husband. Will either one end up asking for her hand, and can she be certain of his character?


Anne must contend with differences in the gentlemen's personalities, poise, and intelligence, and even consider troubling rumors. Are the two men in competition over her? And will Lady Catherine be satisfied with either one as Anne's husband? Along the way, Anne realizes she is not the only one whose life could be changing.

In this daring sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, we see Lady Catherine's daughter Anne through a new lens.


Far too long, Anne de Bourgh has been pitied, ignored, and dismissed as boring and...


A Note From the Publisher

A lifelong devoté of Jane Austen and all her works, James Wollak works as a financial data analyst and lives in San Francisco, California, a third generation San Franciscan. He is an avid reader, numismatist, and music lover, enjoying all kinds of music such as classical and opera, Motown and soul, ABBA, Celtic, blues, bluegrass, and zydeco. He also loves silent and classic Hollywood films, and the “Poldark” and “Downton Abbey” series. He is a strong Anglophile, and Pride and Prejudice is his favorite novel of all time.

A lifelong devoté of Jane Austen and all her works, James Wollak works as a financial data analyst and lives in San Francisco, California, a third generation San Franciscan. He is an avid reader...


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ISBN 9781636495330
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I liked this book, which was inspired by Pride & Prejudice. It focused on several of the novel's minor characters, including Darcy's sister, Elizabeth's unmarried sisters, and Lady Catherine's daughter, while adding new and delightful people to the mix as these young ladies pursue marriage.

Unlike so many novels that follow Austen's great novel, this one stayed very true to the characters, allowing them to grow and mature in .perfectly agreeable ways

I only have one complaint, and that is with the novel's structure, not the plot. A more experienced writer would have interwoven the stories of the four protagonists with each other. Wollak did not do this/ As a result, even though the same people kept appearing, I often felt s if I was reading several different novels instead of a single one.

Even with this fault, I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

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Rather a lovely continuation of Pride and Prejudice. I'm sure many fans will have wondered what happened to all the Bennet girls after the end of Austen's novel, and this novel delivers not only that, but includes (and indeed, largely focuses on) Anne De Bourg too.

It can feel a tad disjointed at times, plunging us into a location and plot point, and then later beginning a new chapter with the fact that the characters have arrived there, making one sometimes wonder if they've skipped ahead, or back, or somehow read chapters out of sequence, but it doesnt spoil the narrative.

All in all, we are presented with a welcome extension to one of the world's best loved novels, in a style that indicates the author's love of Austen's own unique style of wit and warmth.

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