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Book Review of Longbourn

Longbourn
Longbourn
Author: Jo Baker
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


If you are looking to this book as an expansion on "Pride and Prejudice" or as Jane Austen fan fiction, you are going to be greatly disappointed. The primary characters of "P & P" only make very ocassional appearances. But if you are looking for a well researched book on the conditions of those in the servant class in Regency England as fiction, then this is the book for you. Very well written but dark tale of how the servant characters came to be servants and the unending drudgery of the life as a servant. I found this book to be a fascinating read but it won't be everyone's cup of tea.