EPISODE · Oct 8, 2013 · 10 MIN
Longbourn by Jo Baker
from Listen to the Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Romance, Historical · host Mariano Feil
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Longbourn Author: Jo Baker Narrator: Emma Fielding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 11 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: • Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic—into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars—and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Longbourn Author: Jo Baker Narrator: Emma Fielding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 11 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: • Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic—into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars—and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
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