Longbourn Audiobook (Free)

• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story •

If Elizabeth Bennet acquired the washing of her personal petticoats, Sarah frequently thought, she’d most likely be a view more careful with them.

In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs response to Pride and Prejudice, the servants consider center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the flooring, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is simply as much love, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is certainly upstairs. Whenever a mysterious new footman happens, the orderly world of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, maybe irrevocably, upended.

Jo Baker dares to consider us beyond the sketching areas of Jane Austen’s classic-into the frequently overlooked domain from the stern housekeeper as well as the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars experienced by the low classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars-and, in doing this, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that’s wholly her very own.