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The Darcys: The Ruling Passion

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This is the long-awaited follow-up to Linda Berdoll's best-selling Pride & Prejudice sequels, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley.

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Linda Berdoll does not pretend to be a Jane Austen expert. She began to write her first sequel only to satisfy her own longing to know what happened to Darcy & Elizabeth. In doing so, Ms. Berdoll has birthed a new literature genre - Jane Austen sequelists. Readers of these sequels seem to fall into two categories—those who yearn to know what Darcy might have whispered into Lizzy's ear in their nuptial chamber (and just where his long, pliant fingers caressed her as he did) and those who fall into a swoon at the notion of such heresy.

The author suggests that if you, gentle Reader, happen to fall into the latter category, please heed her caution before reading any of my sequels: Hold on to your bonnet, you are in for a bumpy ride.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 356 pages

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