Longbourn [sound recording] / Jo Baker.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: RHA 4336 | Random House Audio/Books on TapePublication details: New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, p2013.Description: 11 sound discs (ca. 13 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0804149402 (Random House Audio)
- 0804149429 (Books on Tape)
- 9780804149402 (Random House Audio) :
- 9780804149426 (Books on Tape) :
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Audiobook | FICTION Baker Jo | Available | 33111007216332 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
* 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.
Compact disc.
Duration: 13:32:00.
Unabridged.
Read by Emma Fielding.
The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's 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 to life.