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Nov 20, 2017
Either you "dig" Jane Austen and her Georgian times or you don't, as the other comments clearly show, but I truly love this book. It's "Pride and Prejudice" turned inside out and upside down. The entailed Bennets, not as rich as they'd like to be and try to appear to be, are shown as silly, shallow and insensitive to the lifetime plight of their servants. The heroine's story is heart-breaking as she manages to find happiness through a lot of pain. Darcy and Bingley, so romantic in Austen's novel, are dumb-show giants, who appear in doorways and tramp through the house, creating more work for the beleaguered servants. The story of the relationship of Mrs. Hill and Mr. Bennet is sensitively told. And, like all Austen books, it has a satisfactory ending!