Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1840636 in Books
• Published on: 1997-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 159 pages

Synopsis
In this sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", the author takes her readers into the lives of Mrs Bennett and her family. Will she lose her home? Will Lizzy improve Darcy's manners? Will Charlotte continue her life of boredom and domination?

Customer Reviews

Very funny in Places.
I have just finished reading the above sequel and thought it was enjoyable. The story is mainly about Darcy and Elizabeth and Charlotte Collins though the other characters of P & P are mentioned, at first I had to get used the fact that Lizzy calls Darcy by the name of Robert rather than Fitzwilliam.

I enjoyed what happens with Mr Collins he arrives at Pemberley with a terrible chill and is confind to bed for the whole of christmas and new year so Charlotte makes friends with Phillip Aston a widower friend of Darcy's. We learn later on that Mr Collins due to his illness has put on weight and Lady Catherine makes him ware stays ones that squeak as well, which I found most entertaining imagining Mr Collins dancing with them on and squeaking at the same time it would be hilarious fun.

Lady Catherine is as obnoxious as usual but in the end gets her due because she gets cast off by Darcy for trying to interfer with his marriage. Towards the end of the book Mr Collins dies of consumption and Charlotte is free to marry again. Due to not being a purist for JA I found this book to be a excellent read and extreamly funny in places.

Not in the style of Jane Austen & Hollywood ending
I was very disappointed with the very un-Jane Austen-like writing - besides the grating name change of Fitzwilliam to Robert. The constant use of the familiar first name was exceedingly jarring and the ending was absurdly feel-good and predictable with an incredibly fast wrap up of the many storylines.

Christmas brings a flirtation for Charlotte Collins
While there are other "sequels" preferable to this one, it's certainly fine for the Austen fan who simply cannot get enough of the delightful characters. This story offers up a suppositional look at Elizabeth's first Christmas at Pemberley and Charlotte Collins' flirtation and attraction to a gentleman guest. Charlotte is one of P&P's sweetest and dogmatic characters and Hampson seems to want something better for her than Mr. Collins. (And yes, it may grate purists that she's renamed Darcy "Robert.") This isn't the most memorable of sequels, but an earnest effort.