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  • By: Elizabeth Aston
  • Narrated by: Morag Sims
  • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (86 ratings)
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Mr. Darcy's Daughters

By: Elizabeth Aston
Narrated by: Morag Sims
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Summary

Picking up 20 years after Pride and Prejudice left off, Mr. Darcy's Daughters begins in the year 1818. Elizabeth and Darcy have gone to Constantinople, giving us an opportunity to get to know their five daughters, who have left the sheltered surroundings of Pemberley for a few months in London. While the eldest, Letitia, frets and the youngest, Alethea, practices her music, twins Georgina and Belle flirt and frolic their way through parties and balls and Camilla - levelheaded and independent - discovers what joys and sorrows the city has to offer an intelligent young woman.

Listeners will delight in the return of such beloved Austen creations as Elizabeth's old nemesis Caroline Bingley (now Lady Warren), the ever-reliable Gardiners, and wayward Aunt Lydia. Charming, beautifully written, and full of societal intrigue and romantic high jinks, Mr. Darcy's Daughters is a tale that would please Austen herself.

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Perfect Elizabeth Aston Novel

I had already read the book form of this Audible, so I was looking forward to having the book read out to me. I was disappointed with the narration. All the female were at best different from one another, but not that well that I could tell which character was speaking and all the male characters were exactly the same. For those that have listened to the first 3 novels read by Phyllida Nash will probably likewise disappointed. The story line is excellent However, I hope Audible will put the story about Miss Alethea Darcy in their repertoire, even if it is the same narrator I shall download it because it was a very good read.

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Bring back Phyllida Nash

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator made the voices of various adults in the book sound as if they were very young children. She is also unable to pronounce a number of word properly, such as ogle and chaise longue.

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At the end of the audio book there is a free chapter of the next book in the series and the narrator ends the whole book by encouraging the listener to download this second book. But it is not available from Audible at the moment...
It would have been preferable if Phyllida Nash had narrated the whole series!

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Easy listening, but . . .

Easy listening but if they were Darcys Daughters the three younger daughters would NEVER behave as these ladies did. Nor would Elizabeth and Darcy leave their daughters to their first London season without being there for them. Mr Darcy and Elizabeth would be excellent parents in teaching the correct behaviour. The girls would also have too much respect for their hosts! However, as I cannot change the storyline, if you dismiss the Jane Austen characters this book is an easy listen. The voice of the narrator grate's a bit, as she doesn't manage to change the tone very well between characters. Along with other reviewers I would prefer Phyllida Nash to read this. The story moves along fairly well and is easy to follow. I dislike the impression this book gives that everyone in fashionable London at that time were all small minded, petty gossips. I believe that there were some "nice" people in society in those days. Although I like happy endings, I could not see where Sophy and Belle's love matches came from - its not as if their lovers are strong dynamic men, ready to push their claims or arrange clandestine meetings! Even saying all this, its is still an easy listen!

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Entertaining

Awful narration.
Story entertaining but it does not follow in any way from pride and prejudice. The sisters, apart maybe from Camilla, could not have been raised by Elizabeth and Darcy!
Passed time in car.
Disappointed that can’t get the next book despite the opening chapters at end of this one.

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A good writer

A good story marred by very few anachronisms but the perennial trouble of nonsensically wrong emphases on words.

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Mostly enjoyable

An enjoyable Regency romance centred around the London season of Elizabeth's Darcy's daughters - all five of them - slightly marred by the reading. Morag Sims has a pleasant voice but some of her attempts at the voices of male characters are rather odd, especially Mr Roper, unless he permanently wears his stock tied too tightly. More disconcertingly, she mispronounces various words, including the name Alethea, and I was reduced to shouting "rowt!" every time the characters discussed a proposed rout party. For someone who seems to specialise in reading historical novels this lack of familiarity with the period really won't do. And if "ogle" was pronounced "oggle", as seems to have become current, it would have been spelt that way! Grrr!

It seems odd to me that the rational and well-read Darcys should produce two offspring as silly as Lydia and Kitty Bennet, but since Aston is playing with the parallels between her Darcy daughters and the Bennets, I suppose it's allowable. I'm more sorry for what Aston has done to Mrs Gardiner, who seemed very pleasant and capable in Pride and Prejudice but seems here to have lost many of the qualities which made Elizabeth and Jane so fond of her. The heroine, Camilla, is a worthy successor to her mother, though.

Despite my reservations, I shall probably "read" the rest of the series - I think my blood pressure will stand it!

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Jane Austen it ain’t!

This is Pride and Prejudice Lite, with all the irony and humour taken out. It’s a bit of inoffensive fun but it’s essentially a shallow rehash of Austen’s great tale, this time set in a society where virtually all “gentlemen” are would-be rapists, obsessed with staring at teenage girls’ bosoms and all “ladies” are vicious, conniving gossips.
Any daughters of Elizabeth and Darcy would surely be better bred than these girls. And all their beaux are dull and wet.
The language is all wrong - I can’t believe any lady of good breeding in those days would have used words like “whore”.
To top it all, the narrator mispronounces several words. At the end, we get a free preview of the next novel in the series. I really don’t care enough about any of these characters to bother with it, which is a pity since the premise for the story is a good one.

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Ok to pass the time

The story is a type of rehash of pride of prejudice in the sense that there are five daughters with similar personalities to the Bennett sisters. I find it unbelievable that Elizabeth and Darcy would have had two daughters as silly as Lydia and kitty…just needed the next generation to also make stupid decisions and elope. Elizabeth and Darcy would have raised their daughters with more sense…and given their past experiences, if they did have silly daughters they would not have left them alone for their first London season.

The story is just cashing on on the Austin legacy.

I did not enjoy the narration much: the women often sounded like children and the men quite gruff.

For me this was background entertainment while I was busy doing tasks rather than something to focus on.

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If I had paid for this, I would have returned it

Halfway through the novel, I would have said it was a decent regency novel if it had not been connected to Pride and Prejudice. After finishing it, I no longer think so.

I think the author definitely did themselves a disservice by claiming connection to Pride and Prejudice. The only person from P&P who is not acting grossly out of character is Caroline Bingley (Lady Warren in this one). With that in mind, it seems an odd choice to set this in the P&P universe.

Aside from that, the novel is just... it wants to be a regency novel but it has no meat on it. The characters act very anachronistic for the time and I found none of them really likeable. The romance for the heroine is so weird and in both instances seem to go from 0 to "I am so utterly in love with you" in the blink of an eye. There is a serious lack of build-up for the romantic relationships.

Plot-wise, several plots are introduced which end up coming to nothing. The villains lay plans only to seemingly forget about those plans once they don't get an easy win after the first attempt and it honestly just comes off as ridiculous.

And I fully agree with the other reviewers: Darcy and Elizabeth would never be able to produce daughters as silly, vain, ridiculous, and ignorant as the five girls presented in this novel!

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Boring

The story is unremarkable, and ultimately predictable. Narration poor. Character voices are unconvincing and in many instances difficult to differentiate. Plus many irritating mis-pronunciations.

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