I am so happy when Austenesque authors make their books available in audio. Not only does it make the book available to those who cannot read print, for whatever reason, but it can enliven our travelling and chore time, and also brings us closer to Austen’s time, when reading aloud was a common way that people would spend time together.
Let’s
look at the blurb and then I will bring you an author interview with Jayne, and
share an excerpt with you. Jayne is giving away an audiobook of Five Daughters Out
at Once to accompany the blog tour. Read on for more details!
Book Description
After the untimely death of their parents, Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters are left to make their own way in the world, and the dubious decision to stay at Longbourn until they are forced out leads to chaos and confrontation two years later, when their cousin Mr. Collins comes to claim his inheritance.
Hot
on his heels is his noble patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a woman consumed
by grief of her own after the loss of her husband and daughter in a terrible
fire at her estate, Rosings Park. While her nephew Mr. Darcy is shocked by his
aunt’s interest in the five orphaned girls, her niece Georgiana thinks it just
the thing to soothe the dowager’s low spirits. Moved by the bonds of sorrow and
a shared contempt of Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine offers the Bennet sisters her
protection and assistance in society – and what better way to help them than to
find them all rich husbands?
Much
to her chagrin, Lady Catherine is not the only one to meddle in Meryton’s
marriage mart – Richard Fitzwilliam joins her, at leisure to make mischief,
Charlotte Lucas, now an heiress in her own right, has a secret of her own, and
Georgiana Darcy finds herself inspired to write a novel that will document –
and change – the lives of her new friends.
Tensions
rise between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy as they both bristle at
Lady Catherine’s plans – for very different reasons. Misapprehension and
misunderstandings abound and plans go awry as the great lady rents Netherfield
Park and hosts a horde of single gentlemen in possession of good fortunes, who
must be in want of wives.
Will
the Bennet sisters find love and happiness? What other Austen heroes and rakes
might appear in the once dull village of Meryton? Will Darcy and Lizzy overcome
the obstacles of their own making?
