The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

Author: Grace Gibson Listening Length: 7h 17m
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I signed my maiden name first before memorialising my new name. Elizabeth Madeline Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet lay dead on the altar of matrimony. HAVING SIGNED THE REGISTER as Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must somehow survive a crushing scandal as a stranger to herself. Her unwilling husband is so out...

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Wednesday dawned, and from my window, I spied Mrs Darcy being driven out of the yard in one of the gigs. She was on her way to the Travers’ cottage, then to the Derby market on pretence. I wondered just how believable her ‘new-found interest’ in poultry would be on the estate.

As I stood there pondering, it occurred to me with a jolt that she would most likely be seen entering the town doctor’s house with Mrs Travers.

The gossip that seemed inevitable now thundered into my head.

That woman perpetually managed to throw an invisible blanket of fog over my thinking brain.