Jane Austen follow ups

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Has anyone read any good Austen follow up or re telling? Fancy a bit of Regency romance at the moment! 😀

Have a look at this thread

www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/4687570-pride-and-prejudice-spin-offs?reply=122684768

Ooh thank you @ChessieFL , some good picks on there!

Loungbourn and Charlotte are both quite good

Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby. Not a follow up but definitely Austen related.

I recently read The Jane Austen Diet. It's a non-fiction account of the kind of meals that would have been eaten in regency times. It was interesting.

Curtis Sittenfeld's "Eligible" is a DREADFUL rewrite of "P&P". I was too appalled to finish it.

Miss Austen also by Gill Hornby is v good. About Jane from the point of view of her sister.

I recently thoroughly enjoyed ' the other Bennet sister' about Mary in pride and prejudice.

I so agree to recommending The Other Bennett Sister (I loved the segments set in London!) and Gill Hornby is a recent discovery: I lucked on a copy of her latest, Godmersham Park, at my local library.

I am reading it now. Since you posted I have also listened to, and watched, 'Miss Austen'. I like what Gill Hornby does. There is a third out, I know.

Ayesha at last by Uzma Jalauddin is a contemporary retelling of P&P in Canada.

The one I always recommend is Joan Aiken’s Mansfield Revisited, which I think does a good job (and gets Edmund and Fanny offstage!). She wrote lots of other ‘Austen entertainments’ (like Jane Fairfax’s story) but I never feel they’re anywhere near as good.