Where is was a strange story it made a strange sort of sense as well. It was well written and even though I was disgusted by one of my favorite books being 'made fun of' like this for lack of better wording, I actually enjoyed this book. The authors didn't choke you with the vampire thing like ...
used too many references from P&P. It makes me laugh that I even picked up this book. It was really quite ridiculous.
This is the first book I've read in this series, by Amanda Grange's reworking of a Jane Austen story from the man's point of view. This novel is based on "Mansfield Park" but from Edmund Bertram's viewpoint.To begin the book we see where Fanny Price arrives at Mansfield Park at 10 years old. Edmu...
So silly and yet such an indulgent and delicious read when all you're breathing in is hot summer air at the beach... As far as an epistolary retelling of "Pride and Prejudice" goes, this is well done and well imagined. It almost gets four stars for allowing me the sheer mindless pleasure of escap...
Wickham's diary by Amanda Grange is a great addition of Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. It tells the life story of George Wickham through his childhood with Fitzwilliam Darcy, how they ended their friendship and how he tried to trick Georgiana Darcy into trying to elope with him. This wonderfu...
Cassandra Paxton arrives in Brighton to throw light on his brother’s last letter, unfinished because of his sudden death. She means to meet all of his brother’s friends and ask them if they know something she does not about her brother’s last actions. But the first one she talks to, Lord Deverill...
What a fun quick read! Finished it in one evening as I wanted desperately to see what would become of Marianne and Lord Ravensford. Marianne is managing her fathers estate and is passionate about getting traps removed off the land that she seeks out her new neighbour without a proper chaperone. A...
Relive Jane Austen's Emma- from Mr. Knightley's point of view. Between managing his estate and visiting his brother in London, Mr. Knightley is both exasperated and amused by his irresistibly beautiful, outrageously mischievous neighbor, Emma Woodhouse, whose misguided attempts at matchmaking ...
When Joshua Kelling proposes to Miss Rebecca Fossington, she refuses him. But meeting him again in London comes as a shock—even worse is discovering that her grandfather has made them joint owners of a cotton mill. Now she can no longer avoid her feelings for him, which grow everyday. Mysterious ...
Amanda Grange continues her series of much-loved Jane Austen retellings with "Captain Wentworth's Diary". It is 1806, and the Napoleonic wars are ravaging Europe. Frederick Wentworth, a brilliant young man with a flourishing career in the navy, is spending his shore leave in Somerset, where he me...
'Really, Isabelle!' she retorted. 1 don't know what you mean.' The two ladies, both vigorous despite being over seventy years of age, were taking tea in the splendid drawing-room of Templeton House. It was a hot afternoon in the summer of 1814 and the tall windows were open to let in the cooling ...
‘It is. It’s a pity you won’t have any new frocks to wear,’ said Trudie. ‘Lord Ravensford’s seen all of these.’ ‘And so has everyone else,’ Marianne pointed out. She was pleased that Trudie had not asked her too much about her change of plan regarding the weekend party. What conclusions Trudie ha...
Sophie wanted to work out the route she would take with Martin Goss and decide at which point she would swoon, Cicely wanted to find a good spot from which to keep an eye on the proceedings, whilst Mrs Lessing, declaring they could not go unchaperoned, accompanied them. The morning was fine. Cice...
I opened it with nerveless fingers, wondering what news it would contain, and wondering if it would mention Eliza. For all my efforts to forget her, I cannot banish her from my mind, and when there is a lull in my duties, I find myself thinking of her. I read Catherine’s news of her family with l...
She rose with the first light, and having washed and dressed quickly she slipped out of her room. She turned left and continued along the landing in the direction from which Lord Carisbrooke had been coming on the night he had been injured. The landing was hung with tapestries on her left hand si...
Two candelabras on the mantelpiece and another one on a large desk in the middle of the room did their best to provide light, but the walls were lost in darkness, save for glints of gold coming from the shadows that hinted the room was lined with books. There was a leaping fire in the grate, and ...