Pride & Prejudice fans?

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New novel by comedian Rachel Parris:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/introducing-mrs-collins/rachel-parris/9781399751612

I really enjoyed this. Brings Charlotte to life very convincingly; makes Mr Collins and Lady Catherine de Bourgh more sympathetic - and adds a very satisfying element to her story.

Yes I’ve listened to that and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I downloaded the sample from Kindle and I realised immediately why Jane Austen’s novel is superior.

Within a few pages we are stuck reading long dull letters from Mr Collins who is an utter bore, so of course there is no entertainment value in reading a long letter he has written (though I must say I thought she captured his voice pretty well).

I wasn’t excited to read more so I shan’t be buying the whole book.

Sorry, OP, I agree about the writing being poor, and I'm only listening to it, not reading. She swings between imitating an Austen style and a plain modern tone, and there's some clunky misuse of vocabulary which is like repeatedly stubbing your toe. A good editor should have picked up her confusing idiom with axiom, for instance, and using reserve for (I assume) resolve. And as for "Her cool grey eyes could have chipped ice into Elizabeth's as she rose and exited the room" that is just plain nonsense. I'm giving up on it, and it's a shame, because I do wonder about Charlotte's life after marriage. Joan Aiken is the one for me - I love Mansfield revisited.