Listened to this while painting the kitchen. Large chunks of the middle drag on a bit, but otherwise this is one of my favourite JA novels.
It's such a modern story, it could work well even today: Poor girl from Portsmouth goes to live with better-off family. Life isn't great. She returns, only to realise her father's a filthy old alcoholic, her mother's lazy and there are now a dozen cheeky kids living in squalor. Life is now worse. And then she marries her cousin but let's forget that bit.
I believe MP gets ignored because it's not as 'light' as Austen's other novels iyswim. It really is a work of brilliance though (and deserves its own appreciation thread!)
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