Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride!

Picking up from canon P&P after Elizabeth Bennet has rejected Darcy’s first proposal at Hunsford, we find he’s taken it rather hard. Actually, more than hard. He’s “let himself go” so much that he’s arrested whilst in a drunken stupor and mistaken for a notorious pirate. Fortunately, someone in authority believes his tale and persuades him to impersonate aforementioned pirates so that the miscreant can be put away for good. For someone for whom “disguise of every sort is my abhorrence”, Darcy has a little trouble getting into character to start with.

Elizabeth Bennet, instead of going on a summer tour with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, ends up going on a trip to the Isles of Scilly with her father to visit an ailing relative. She meets some other relatives, including a young man named David who seems rather taken with her. On their journey back, cue real pirates and pretend pirates! That’s as far as I’ll go with the storyline. The rest is up to you.

At first, the premise does seem rather unbelievable but if you can get past that, you’ll have a really good time with this listen. One or two swoon worthy moments between E and D and a number of swashes buckled including a sword fight. Ms. Louise is a great storyteller in this genre and this work is no exception. Ms. Collana performs the narrative and characters well. It’s rather a shame she hasn’t done more like this.

Highly recommended.

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