Pride & Prejudice sequel - name that book!

[Sallypoo]

Hi all

I wondering if any of you P&P fans recognise this book. I read it ages ago, and want to see if I can get hold of a copy...

Follows on the P&P when Lizzy & Mr Darcy are married. Mr Darcy starts acting strange (has secret) which Lizzy can't leave alone.... she thinks he has another women, turns out that his best friend (married to her sister Jane) has a secret child from a women he met in France during the war?

Ring any bells? I realise there are hundreds of sequels, and can't find any on Amazon that sound like this....

Any help would be gratefully received.

Pemberley- Emma Tennant, I think

Yes I have it upstairs - is it Pemberley by Emma Tennant , although iirc there was another one too

Pemberley is the best known so-called sequel. It is appalling but I have hidden the exact details way back in my mind in a bid to forget that it was ever written tbh.

I loved 'Mr Darcy's Diary'. I'm sorry if that offends, but i really enjoyed it!

Yes, I couldn't remember the name but it's by Emma Tennant and it's pretty tiresome (perhaps I'm biased because I happened to speak with the lady on the phone a few weeks before reading it and I thought she was astonishingly patronising!).

LOOK AWAY NOW BELLIGERENT GHOUL

I think she wrote a sequel to the sequel, all to do with Darcy & Elizabeth's children but I never got round to reading it on the "strength" of the first... I think the gist of the story was that the boy was a bit of a layabout and it was the girl who was interested in running the estate etc etc etc...

Saggyoldclothcatpuss, I haven't come across Mr Darcy's Diary, can you tell me more?

ah it was An Unequal Marriage next ! Also written Thornfield Hall , presumably a Jane Eyre sequel/prequel and Emma in Love etc

Ugh - do we have a vomit emoticon on here? :)

This is just wrong. Same with Rebecca sequels, or most others you care to mention!

Must admit loving Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - not exactly a sequel to Jane Eyre though it certainly couldn't have been written without Jane Eyre...

Just popped on to Amazon and somewhat satisfied to see that Emma Tennant's sequels to Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre all have 1 and 2 star reviews, what a meany I am .

I had a ritual burning of Pemberley - normally I see books as sacred but that was so bad that I couldn't allow it to find its way back out into an unsuspecting and innocent world.

That was brave Belligerent Ghoul, the fumes might have overcome you

There was a much older sequel written in the 1950s called 'Pemberley Shades'. I suspect that it might be even worse than the recent one . The author glories in the name of Dorothy Bonavia-Hunt.

I also loved Wide Sargasso Sea Maud.