Longbourn

Author Jo Baker
Narrator Emma Fielding
Publisher Transworld
Publish Date 15 August 2013
Run Time 13 hours and 29 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.

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What to expect

If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields.

It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman smelling of the sea, and bearing secrets.

For in Georgian England, there is a world the young ladies in the drawing room will never know, a world of poverty, love, and brutal war.

Critics Review

A reimagining of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants . . . A joy

Guardian

A genuinely fresh perspective on the tale of the Bennet household . . . Baker confronts the darker elements of eighteenth century life . . . The result is engrossing - and a lot of fun

Sunday Times

A really special book, and not only because its author writes like an angel

Daily Mail

Delightfully audacious . . . a work that's both original and charming, even gripping

New York Times Book Review

Intoxicating . . . A joy in its own right, a novel that contrives both to provoke the intellect and, ultimately, to stop the heart

Guardian

To twist something so familiar into something quite fresh is impressive . . . Baker takes ownership of this world without mimicking Austen's style, asserting instead her own distinctive voice . . . An engrossing tale we neither know nor expect

Sunday Telegraph

An Austen lover has the satisfaction of matching the novel chapter for chapter

Observer

Just enough Darcy to delight, as well as being a fascinating insight into the harsh working conditions of life in a grand house two hundred years ago

Good Housekeeping

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

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