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Longbourn

Written by: Jo Baker
Narrated by: Emma Fielding
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• 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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One of those books that are easy to relate to for those of us old enough to have had family who were in service. Reading this brought home the dispart lives of servants and their "betters". Young girls without families entered into service with no prospects other than hard work. In this book they do form a sort of family with all that that entails, their hopes and dreams no different from those upstairs. The narration added to the enjoyment of the book.

Enjoyed this look at another time and other lives.

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I absolutely loved this book. The prose is rich, the story is engrossing and the narrator is perfect.

Loved this book!

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The genre was right up my alley. It exceeded my expectations. I loved it all, the story was captivating and the narration was excellent. Thank you audible, I have fallen down another rabbit hole of amazing storytelling and want to read so much more from Jo Baker!

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Listened to the whole thing, I was excited to read it. But I think I could've done without it. A bit too dark, too sad, some parts too boring, other parts too gruesome, and a bit woke.

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