No Thank You, Mr Darcy: A Pride And Prejudice Variation

The pain of WWI is still fresh but it’s a new world for women and Elizabeth Bennet has moved to London to work. As she helps one sister out of mourning and tries to prevent another from ruining her own life, Elizabeth investigates a mysterious girl separated from her family and juggles a precarious friendship with the glamorous Anglo-Indian niece of Fitzwilliam Darcy, reputedly the “most eligible bachelor in the British Empire.”An entertaining, meticulously researched version of Pride And Prejudice where the romance of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy plays out against a backdrop of beautifully drawn minor characters each with their own backstory and aspirations from Charles Bingley partying away the War to Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s sinister political interests.