Janice Hadlow
The Other Bennet Sister
- Pan Macmillan
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 658 Seiten
- ISBN 9781509842049
[A] novel that will delight Pride and Prejudice fans' Independent 'Gorgeous' The Sun 'It's difficult not to race through those final pages' Jo Baker, author of Longbourn -- In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the middle of the five Bennet girls and the plainest of them all, so what hope does she have? Prim and pious, with no redeeming features, she is unloved and seemingly unlovable. The Other Bennet Sister, though, shows another side to Mary. An introvert in a family of extroverts; a constant disappointment to her mother who values beauty above all else; fearful of her father's sharp tongue; with little in common with her siblings - is it any wonder she turns to books for both company and guidance? And, if she finds her life lonely or lacking, that she determines to try harder at the one thing she can be: right. One by one, her sisters marry - Jane and Lizzy for love; Lydia for some semblance of respectability - but Mary, it seems, is destined to remain single and live out her life at Longbourn, at least until her father dies and
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