Like many other people, I'm obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, and although part of it is because of the characters, mainly it's because Pride and Prejudice is such a brilliant love story. Two strong-willed people, both with flaws and failings, meet and eventually fall in love.
But what happens afterwards? I've been thinking about this for a long time.
I began to realise that what I wanted to read was a story which would test them and their love for each other in the way that Pride and Prejudice tested them, because I knew that whatever happened they would find a way to overcome their difficulties.
Their love for each other is legendary and immortal and so I wrote a legendary and immortal love story for them.
There are still plenty of familiar things for them to do. They visit the ballrooms of Europe, they entertain, they meet Darcy's relatives, just as they did in Pride and Prejudice. But under everything is a current of unease, because as well as the strange happenings, Darcy is reserved and Lizzy doesn't know why. All she knows is that when they left the church he was full of love and longing, and by the time they reached Longbourn for the wedding breakfast, everything had changed.
Could it have anything to do with the message he received after the wedding? And if so, what was in it?
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Oh, this DOES sound like a good book. I'm quite intrigued now. I've never read anything by Jane Austen, I know I know it's horrible and I should, but I really want to read this.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
"and although part of it is because of the characters, mainly it's because Pride and Prejudice is such a brilliant love story"
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the particulars of this sentence - I think that it is BECAUSE of the great characterization that P&P is such a great love story. Who doesn't adore Elizabeth, and want to see her happy? Who isn't initially annoyed with Darcy, and want to see him put in his place? It is because the reader gets to know and care about the characters that the love story endures in the reader's mind and heart.