Longbourn
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Published
[Wesminister, MD] : Books on Tape, [2013].
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Unabridged ed.
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Published
[Wesminister, MD] : Books on Tape, [2013].
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (812 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
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Compact discs.
General Note
Duration: 13:32:00.
Participants/Performers
Read by Emma Fielding.
Description
The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives under mysterious circumstances, and Sarah finds herself the object of the attentions of an ambitious young former slave working at neighboring Netherfield Hall, the carefully choreographed world downstairs at Longbourn threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, up-ended. From the stern but soft-hearted housekeeper to the starry-eyed kitchen maid, these new characters come vividly to life in this already beloved world.