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”It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a wife, must be in want of a good fortune.”

There is much excitement in Longlawn when two men with tall hats enter the district. Mothers buy new dresses for their daughters, fathers polish up on their fencing skills, and Mr. Bonnet tackles the perilous journey through the stinging nettles to call upon the new occupants of Nettlefield Park.

The ditsy Jane Bonnet soon falls for Mr. Blingley with all his gold jewellery, but her sister, the ever-prodigious Lizzy, very much dislikes Mr. Blingley's friend, Mr. Dicey, whose pied coat and tall hat strike fear into the local populace.

This is a story of excessive fashion, high heels, large wardrobes, tall hats - oh, and romance!

Author's Note: This audiobook is an abridged light parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

©2012 Darren Andrews (P)2014 Darren Andrews Literature & Fiction Performing Arts Comedy
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A parody of Pride And Prejudice - what fun! NOT! Apart from some schoolboy renaming of characters and places (Mrs Bonnet? Nettlefield? Please!) and two constantly recurring jokes about height and, oh, bonnets this book has no reason to exist. If it's possible to make it worse they did by having Rebecca Roberts reading it. Every character sounded the same except for Mrs Bennett for whose dialogue the Narrator just screeched in a high-pitched voice at twice the volume of the remainder of the narration. Her attempts at an accurate English accent consistently failed (Durbyshire??) and, quite honestly, it just sounded like it had been written and read by two young teenagers having a laugh. Two hours of my life wasted. (I know it's three hours 38 minutes long but I couldn't take any more!)

POOR IN SO MANY WAYS!

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