Remember the Past
In which the author broke so many rules.
Sometimes you just bumble along, with no idea you’re breaking rules right and left. That was this book.
Let’s see, Darcy was a widower, with children. Darcy’s late wife was Anne de Bourgh. Lady Catherine was a (ack!) nice widow. She married in a heretofore unexpected way at the end of the book. (sacrilege!) And I made a secondary character more interesting that a number of the primary characters.
And I still love the story.
I give you…
Remember the Past
Elizabeth Bennet’s father, Admiral Thomas Bennet, assures his daughters that his retirement from His Majesty’s Navy will be the start of a new life for them all. Little does he know his family’s battles have only just begun.
Well-connected and in possession of a good fortune, their entry into society should have been a triumph. However, their long-awaited first season in London proves a disaster, and the resulting scandal sends the Bennets fleeing to the wilds of Derbyshire.
Widower Fitzwilliam Darcy, the master of Pemberley, wants for nothing, most especially not a wife. From the moment the Bennets arrive in Derbyshire, Darcy’s neatly ordered life turns upside down. His sons beg to keep company with their new playmates, the young Bennet twins. His mother-in-law sets her cap for Admiral Bennet. Worst of all, Darcy cannot get his mind off a certain bewitching Miss Elizabeth Bennet, but she has sworn never to let another gentleman near her heart.
Darcy’s best efforts to befriend and assist the Bennet family go horribly awry, alienating first Miss Elizabeth, then her father, and finally endangering what both men hold most dear. Can the two men Elizabeth loves most set aside their pride to prevent catastrophe for their families and win the love they seek?
I love that cover. Lady Catherine was a force in this story. Those kids made me laugh and cringe at the same time. Boys of a certain age are dangerous to themselves and to others until they grow out of it. Whew. I loved how the fathers taught their sons how to be men of the age. I am enjoying this look back at early works in your career. What are rules… if not to be broken?
This book I remember quite well because Elizabeth had had quite enough of men from the ton trying to compromise her for her dowry, and she did not tolerate it! Her twin brothers were quite a handful. I loved the romance between her father and Lady Catherine. I loved the rules that you broke in this book. Darcy was Darcy until Elizabeth got her hooks into him.
I recently re-read this book, and I still adore it!!
Rules, schmules.
Warmly,
Susanne