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Pemberley Remembered
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by Mary Lydon Simonsen
Sales Rank: 95832
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List Price: $17.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 441 pages
Published by: TRC Castle Garden Publishing November 30, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0979893305
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979893308
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Front Street Reviews - Jamie Bell
More than just your average addition to the popular new Austen genre. Enjoy this lovely, surprisingly plausible ride.
Celia Hayes, Author of "To Truckee's Trail"
Three love stories and a mystery all braided together. A must read for the serious Austen fan.
Reader Reviews
You pick up Pemberley Remembered at first because you loved Pride and Prejudice and you want to enjoy those characters again. But once you begin to read, you will find yourself drawn into a multi-layered story taking place in three different time periods, with three different couples. Maggie Joyce, an American living in England after the Second World War, visits Montclair, a mansion rumored to be the inspiration for Pemberley, the home of Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's famous classic novel. Once there, Maggie learns that the former inhabitants of the mansion, William Lacey and his wife Elizabeth Garrison Lacey, are considered by locals to be the true inspiration for Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Meaning only to while away an afternoon, Maggie talks to Jack Crowell, one of the local experts on the story, and finds herself caught up in a complex tale of family and love. In Pemberley Remembered, characters and plotlines are revealed to the reader as a series of interconnected anecdotes and reminiscences. For me, it called to mind the way you learn about your own family history. Ancestors, recent and not-so-recent, are known to you through the stories told by your relatives. This is the way Ms. Simonsen reveals her characters' lives to the reader, one remembrance at a time. As Maggie talks to Jack Crowell, she learns not only about the Garrison-Lacey family, but also his own. The tale of the Crowell family, and its connection to the Laceys, turns out to be just as interesting as the original Jane Austen novel. Originally, of course, the story begins with the Garrisons and the Laceys, who may or may not be the Bennets and the Darcys. But the reader is quickly caught up in the story of Jack Crowell and his wife Beth, whose own love story spans the First World War. In addition, Maggie's romance with the former navigator of an American bomber runs through the novel like a ribbon. Their developing relationship--and the ways in which their different backgrounds and his experiences in the war may affect their future--provides the backbone of the novel, while the Elizabeth-Darcy and Beth-Jack romances mirror each other in surprising ways. This is a story of love, of the devastation wrought by two different wars, and of social status and family ties that complicate the lives of three different couples in three different time periods. A thoroughly enjoyable and complex historical romance.
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