About
The Book
In the course of 1811, the Bennets of
Longbourn meet two sets of estranged relatives: Mr Bennet’s unprepossessing
heir, and his mother’s family. Elizabeth Bennet journeys into Kent to stay with
the Palmers at Wingham Hall: her grand-aunt Iphigenia, her cousin Sir James
Palmer, who had loved her grandmother ardently in his youth, and his son
Galahad. Pleased with her new relations, Elizabeth is less content with the
taciturn friend Galahad has invited to join him at Wingham. Fitzwilliam
Darcy—rich and proud, disdainful of those beneath him—has escorted his sister
Georgiana to Ramsgate, to recuperate from a dangerous illness in the care of
her companion, Mrs Younge.
Complications arise with the arrival of Elizabeth’s sister
Jane and, separately, Charles and Caroline Bingley, the authors of Jane’s
unhappiness. Tensions and quarrels result in the Bingleys’ abrupt departure,
swiftly followed by Darcy after a maladroit proposal that Elizabeth spurns with
a pride that matches his own.
Unfortunately, Darcy leaves Kent just as his enemy, George
Wickham appears, intent on securing Georgiana and her fortune. Who will stand
between Georgiana and ruin? Who will win Jane Bennet’s hand? And can Darcy and
Elizabeth ever be reconciled?”
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