The Darcys and the Bingleys – Book Review
by Marsha Altman
ISBN-13: 9781402213489
Published: 2008
Ms Altman, I bow down to your wit, humour and superior story-telling skills. The Darcys and the Bingleys was wonderful.
I regularly laughed out loud and was loathe to have to put the book down to keep my family fed and watered.
What a romp this book is, love and a fair amount of lust, (she says excitedly), mysteries, attempted murders, sword fights and rotten scoundrels.
The book contains all our favourite characters from Pride and Prejudice and begins just before Darcy and Bingley are to marry the beautiful Bennet sisters, Elizabeth and Jane.
Bingley is nervous about the wedding night and goes to Darcy for advice. Here enters ‘the book’ the famous Kama Sutra, that I’m sure still resides in many a secret hideyhole in master bedrooms all over the world. The Bennet sisters are horrified by the ‘responsibilities of a wife’ imparted to them by their mother on the eve of their wedding. However, the sisters soon learn that being a responsible wife with loving and ‘educated’ husbands is not at all horrible.
Not surprisingly, the sisters are soon pregnant and the families start to expand. They have been great friends but becoming brothers has encouraged Darcy and Bingley to be competitive and occupy themselves by trying to best the other in anything. The voice of calm and reason comes to the brothers from an unexpected yet delightful source – one of my favourite characters – Mr Bennet.
A distraction does come in the form of a suitor for Caroline Bingley. Charles asked Darcy to form an opinion of him as he himself does not trust the man. Darcy also feels that something is amiss with the northerner Lord Kincaid, so he and the family are duty bound to discover who he is.
I loved this book to bits and am waiting on Plight of the Darcy Brothers to be delivered. Be kind to yourself and read it now… so off you go.
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