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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Were I in the mood to concede anything, I would have admitted that our dinner party and musical evening were not altogether horrible.

The people gathered were perhaps more polite than those sitting around my aunt’s table.

Not a word of salacious gossip was spoken, they were all well-washed, no one absent was mercilessly picked apart, and no one drank overmuch.

My family, seated at the table with expressions of their willingness to be pleased, seemed to be in solidarity in ignoring my opinion of their chosen company, taking turns introducing topics of conversation and meticulously avoiding looking my way.