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This has been described as Pride & Prejudice from the servants perspective, but I don't think that's accurate at all. The events of P&P are used as a time line for this story and the characters feel the ripples of those events, but they are secondary to the story here. I loved the characters Baker has created and the love story she imagines happening behind the scenes in the Bennet household. A great story excellently written.
I will add that it doesn't read like Austen at all and it very much is ...more
I will add that it doesn't read like Austen at all and it very much is ...more

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