Synopses & Reviews
Beginning twenty-five years after Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding, their life together has been wonderful and their marriage is still thriving. Their grown children bring them great delight, along with some trepidation, Mrs. Darcy's nieces come for a visit, and a theatrical scandal threatens to embroil them all. The Victorian age is dawning, and Pemberley's new generation is coming into their own.
The very title makes you want to read it right away Fascinating, and such wonderful use of language. --Joan Austen-Leigh
Birchall's witty, elegant visit to the middle-aged Darcys is a delight. --Professor Janet Todd, University of Glasgow
A refreshing and entertaining look at the Darcys some years after Pride and Prejudice from a most accomplished author. --Jenny Scott, author of After Jane
Synopsis
Although she was now between forty and fifty years old, Mrs. Darcy was still a handsome woman, known for her wit and good humour; still slender, light of foot, with sparkling eyes and hair that, under her matron's lace caps was still smooth and abundant. She was as much as ever the delight of Mr. Darcy's mind and the beloved of his heart... But in the affairs of her children, visits from her nieces, and more than one scandal, Mrs. Darcy finds much to occupy herself in the new Victorian age that is opening upon Pemberley...
Synopsis
Mrs. Darcy finds much to occupy herself with in the affairs of her children, visits from her nieces, and more than one scandal in the new Victorian age that is opening upon Pemberley.