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  • The Courtship of Edward Gardiner

  • A Pride and Prejudice Prequel
  • By: Nicole Clarkston
  • Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)
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By: Nicole Clarkston
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Summary

Every great love has a beginning. In Austen's Pride and Prejudice, we meet with perhaps the most sensible, caring relatives a lovelorn young woman could hope for: Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. What is their story?

Edward Gardiner has just been refused by the lovely young woman he had intended to make his wife. Heartbroken and eager for a diversion, he accepts an invitation from his brother-in-law, Thomas Bennet, to accompany him along with his two eldest daughters to the north on family business. Gardiner's pleasure tour is interrupted, however, when his eldest niece falls ill and is unable to travel farther.

Stopping over in the scarcely remarkable village of Lambton, the men decide that Bennet must continue on, while Gardiner and the children remain. The only trouble is that Gardiner has not the least idea how he should care for one ailing niece and another who is ready to drive him to distraction...until he meets with Madeline Fairbanks.

©2016 Nicole Clarkston (P)2017 Nicole Clarkston
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Sheeran delight

What a fabulous idea to dwell on Mr and Mrs Gardiner's early days together. I really enjoyed it, especially meeting several P&P characters in their childhood days too.

I loved the Gardiner's before, but now I am positively in love with them.

What can I say about the narrator? Stevie Zimmerman is second to none in anything she reads. This audiobook is no exception. Just wonderful to listen. I listened to the book yesterday while driving and all day today when I was in the kitchen. I just couldn't stop listening, I was that hooked.

A total success!

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