Her grandmother consents to the plan on one condition: she must change her wild ways and behave like an elegant lady. When an invitation arrives from her sister to stay at Edenbrooke, a country estate in Kent owned by a wealthy and titled man who Cecily hopes to marry, Marianne is ecstatic at the possibility of being in the country again. Collins in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice shares an absence of natural gifts that had not been improved by education or society. She is rather bored with Bath and the attentions of one odious Mr. I had to find out.Ī Wild Heroine Who Prefers to Twirl Under the Open SkyĪfter the tragic death of her mother, our heroine Marianne Daventry has been sent to Bath to live with her elderly grandmother, while her beautiful and refined twin sister Cecily lives in London with her more fashionable cousins.

Donaldson must have gotten it right to have so many raving about her first novel.

In the instance of Edenbrooke, a debut novel by Juliann Donaldson, all the features worked to motivate me to pay top dollar for a digital copy: Regency-era setting, snappy repartee, clean romance, illusions of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, swoon-worthy hero, flawed heroine, and a boatload of beaming reviews on Goodreads and Amazon. He enjoyed reading too-and has an extensive library at Pemberley-the work of many generations! I don’t make 10,000 pounds a year off this blog, so I am quite reserved with my purchasing. Darcy when it comes to reading new works. I love to discover new authors to gush about.

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