**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - "Fans of
Austen...will take particular pleasure" (People) in this irresistibly
imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice.
**
While Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters fuss over balls and husbands,
Sarah, their orphaned housemaid, is beginning to chafe against the
boundaries of her class. When a new footman arrives at Longbourn under
mysterious circumstances, the carefully choreographed world she has
known all her life threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably,
upended.
Mentioned only fleetingly in Jane Austen's classic, here Jo Baker dares
to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Regency England and, in doing so,
uncovers the real world of the novel that has captivated readers' hearts
around the world for generations.
