VALENTINE'S DAY AT PEMBERLEY OR DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY DVD IS OUT!

Yep! I decided to spend a few hours at Pemberley today. The excitement of young Valentine's Days gone, nothing's better than a journey into romance and mystery. Dreams and old memories, do they really help on Valentine's Day? I'm not in a bad mood, not sad nor unhappy, not melancholic nor nostalgic. So the answer is, DEFINITELY YES, they helped a lot.   I played  my new DVDs  and  off I went on a very romantic Valentine voyage.   All alone,  but not truly.

I had already seen Death Comes to Pemberley when it was on BBC One during last Christmas holidays but to re-watch it has given me the chance to enjoy little details that had gone missed at a first view. 

Death Comes to Pemberley, P. D. James's sequel to Pride and Prejudice, is now available on DVD  ( check it out HERE)  and you can watch it on your TV or computer screen as many times as you wish and add it to your Austen - inpired DVD collection. 

This mini-series has  been a pleasant surprise for me, since I didn't expect to like it much. I wasn't that fond of P.D. James 's murder mystery set at Pemberley when I read it,  so I was ready to be bored and even more disappointed by its TV adaptation. Instead, in my opinion,  Juliette Towhidi's script improved the plot, enriching it with short flashbacks and giving it a fast paced rhythm it didn't have. 

GIVEAWAY : WIN P. D. JAMES'S DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY - VIDEO: AUTHOR INTERVIEW

In this video interview, recorded at the author's home in October 2011, P. D. James discusses her new novel, 'Death Comes to Pemberley', and her appreciation of the writer who inspired it, Jane Austen . Listen carefully to her presentation of the book and to her interesting points about "writing an Austen sequel". What do you think is a modern writer's most difficult task in writing a sequel, and especially, a sequel to Austen's most widely popular novel, Pride and Prejudice?

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... and get a chance to win a copy of  P.D. James's Austen mystery, "Death Comes to Pemberley", granted to My Jane Austen Book Club by her UK publisher Faber & Faber. This giveaway is open internationally and ends on November 9th.

THE BOOK

The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth’s beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth’s happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual Autumn Ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley’s wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered.

"Death Comes to Pemberley" -  Listen to An Extract Read by P. D.  James (Click HERE)