Longbourn by Jo Baker

Longbourn by Jo Baker

- 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.

Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and Queen's University, Belfast. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, the playwright Daragh Carville, and their two children. She is the author of the best-selling novel Longbourn, as well as four earlier novels, Offcomer, The Mermaid's Child, The Telling, and The Undertow.

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ISBN 13	9780385351232
ISBN 10	0385351232
Title	Longbourn
Author	Jo Baker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2013-10-08
Number of pages	352
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