Hello and welcome to My Jane Austen Book Club, Jessie.
Congratulations on your new release,
Speechless! Let’s start right away talking about the premise
of your Pride and Prejudice Variation.
It’s set during the winter following the Netherfield ball,
after which Darcy leaves Hertfordshire and takes Bingley with him. As I’m sure your readers will
know, at that point in the original story, Darcy is in denial about his feelings for Elizabeth, whereas
Elizabeth is very clear about her feelings for Darcy: she detests him! That is how we find
them at the start of Speechless, when a horrible accident leaves them stranded together at a remote
inn. Darcy has been badly injured,and despite her antipathy towards him, Elizabeth is forced
to be his nursemaid. You can imagine how unimpressed either of them is with this turn of
events, and it gets even worse when they realise Darcy’s wound has left him unable to speak. Our
dear couple have to work out how to understand the words they’re saying before they can even
begin to understand what each other means.
