Pride and Prej spin offs

That's it, thank you!! No idea why that scene stuck in my head!

I really enjoy the retellings in different times/places and listen to them rather than read as they don't require too much concentration. My favourite is Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan by Soniah Kamal which I found really witty and I loved guessing who was who as each character was introduced.

The Longbourn Letters by Rose Servitova - she has also written a completion of The Watsons and A Season at Sanditon.

@LadyBeth is that not s&s? I love the idea that marianne's fall might have been engineered!

In a similar ilk, does that make wild Sargasso Sea fan fiction???

I’ve never read either, but must look them up. I just found my copy of Joan Aiken’s Deception, which only connects with Austen in that it’s set in 1815 and begins at the Abbey School JA briefly attended, but is mostly about an orphan replacing her double who wants to go to India as a missionary, and gets her identical novel-writing schoolmate to pretend to be her in her large family in Northumbria.

Also 'Eliza's Story' told by Willoughby's illegitimate daughter (from 'Sense and Sensibility') and 'The Youngest Miss Ward' (about the youngest sister of Lady Bertram in 'Mansfield Park') both by Joan Aiken are both very good reads in their own right, as well as spin-offs from Austen stories.

Here's Looking At You, by Mhairi McFarlane.

Agree! She also wrote a v good Emma one called Jane Fairfax and a P&P one called Lady Catherine's Necklace which was quite enjoyable though not as good as the others.

Agree The Other Bennet Sister, while well written, would have benefited from some judicious cuts.

@AutumnCrow completely agree. I actually wondered if she’d written it at all. It was a shame, and an opportunity lost. I was looking forward to reading it.

The reviews for Death Comes to Pemberley were beyond belief.

The Sunday Times: "An exhilarating tribute to the inexhaustible vitality of James's imagination"

The Telegraph: "A sparkling curio that will appeal to to both Janeites and Jamesites "

And most unbelievably: "A wonderful treat" - Melvyn Bragg you should hang your head in shame.

It was the biggest load of rubbish I think I've ever read.

It was terrible, wasn't it? Like she's knocked it up over a desultory wet weekend to fulfill a contractual obligation. It seemed like such an odd piece of work to put out at the end of a stellar career, mastering neither chosen style nor plotting nor atmosphere; although it received some generous reviews in the US, I believe.

I do not recommend it (I haven’t read it!) but I once saw in an actual bookshop a book called Mr Darcy: Vampyre, and it made me laugh a lot. Surely Mr Darcy was in the sun at various points during the actual book, you’d think that would make it difficult for him to be a vampire, sorry Vampyre.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Darcy-Vampyre-Amanda-Grange/dp/140223998X

edited to add - I see from the blurb it’s just sunset and sunrise he can’t be out in, helpfully.

Death comes to pemberley is one of the worst booked I’ve ever read. I don’t usually like spin offs but looked forward to this as I love PD James. What a disappointment.

Joan Aiken’s sequel to Mansfield Park, Mansfield Revisited, is extremely well done.

Sophie Irwin has got 2 novels - A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting is a very enjoyable rerun of P&P, very well done and gets you cheering the protagonist along. She's got A Lady's Guide to Scandal as well that v enjoyable too. At my book club I called them post Bridgerton Austen redo's. Other people complained not enough sex in them though.

I really enjoyed the Amanda Grange ones, if they are still available, she did a whole series of books from the male characters' point of view. Much more successful I think than the retellings.

@LadyBeth I think the mole hole book is Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn. It's one of her Bridgerton adjacent books. It stuck in my mind too!

Emma Tennant - Pemberley and An Unequal Marriage. Both reasonably good, although I read them ages ago.

I loved lost in austen!

I thought that Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James was one of the worst books ever written.

I thought that The Other Bennet Sister got better but the first section really dragged, and was far too long, and I'm normally quite tolerant of long, slow books but the pacing on this was not great. Death Comes to Pemberley wasn't PD James at her best! I liked Longbourn, which was focused on characters who are behind the scenes - the servants.

Thank you!!!!! There's three random books that I can only remember vague details from that bug me on occasion. The other Bennett sister is one 😊.

Now if you've any idea about a book involving a mole hole being dug so that the lady could trip 'accidently' but instead was caught out by the neighbour who then actually trips and becomes very ill I would be most grateful 🤣. She ends up marrying the neigbour (who I assume is titled) of course.

The third is the vaguest involving a girl staying with her aunt, possibly unhappily... aunt possibly becomes ill so niece has to drive her car...

Anyway apologies for the random post on your thread!

Loved Longbourn.

Also thought What Kitty Did Next was cute.

@JustAMinutePleass where do we find the fan fiction I often hear it mentioned but wouldn’t know where to start looking? Tia