![]() ![]() 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. She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review. ![]() ![]() She is the author of six novels, including the bestselling Longbourn, a New York Times Notable Book, in development as a feature film with Random House Films and StudioCanal. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker (novelist) Jo Baker is a British writer. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household.īut there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. Pride and Prejudice was only half the story. ![]()
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