Sequel to Pride and Prejudice - any recommendations?

[MarySA]

I notice there are a few more Pride and Prejudice follow ons. I read that awful one Pemberley a few years ago. And it was totally dire. Haven't read any more since. But wondered if anybody could recommend a decent one. I'm just in the mood for something like that at the moment!

I reread P&P recently, and as I finished it I felt a real NEED of a brilliant sequel. Austen rushes everything towards the end, once the major plotlines have been tied up. There is an awful lot of reported speech rather than direct speech. I so much want to see Lizzie and Darcy together at Pemberley, to see how they manage visits from the in laws, and to hear what they say.

What about this?

I've not read it mind...

(I don't think I would dare to read any actual sequels, though. They could never live up to the original, just like no earthly actor can live up to the real Mr Darcy.)

The P d James 'death comes to pemberley' isn't too bad - the characters remain recognisable and although some of it is a bit far fetched it's the best of the sequels I read and a story in its own right.

I quite enjoyed 'Darcy and Elizabeth' and 'Darcy Takes a Wife' by Linda Berdoll. Also The Darcys and the Bingleys' by Marsha Altman (there are more in the series I haven't read).

Berdoll has lots of explicit sex, I mean lots and lots and throughout Pemberly, but the story was OK. Both of her books are very long but I managed to finish them (mostly by just skipping the sex scenes) and I enjoyed being immersed with Austen's characters. You can see on Amazon that lots of readers didn't like all the steamy stuff but I think she got a lot of the characterisation right.

Altman's book is shorter and has much less sex (the mention of the Kama Sutra in the blurb is very much a minor plot point). I can remember enjoying it, its a lighter and less intense read and she tries and fails with the language of Austen.

Noooooooooooooooooooo - step away from the P&P sequels. The only one worth reading is P&P With Zombies, which is ace! :) Or 'Bridget Jones' I guess, has a certain 'charm' in the Lydia/stupid mother links.

'Death Comes To Pemberley' is atrocious and anything else I've seen is even worse!

Thanks very much for all the suggestions. Death comes to Pemberley must be the P D James one. I had forgotten about that.

I haven't read Lost in Austen the book, but would heartily recommend the TV series.