![]() So continuing WLT’s new feature Sound It Out, I have created a compilation to evoke the journey to contentment-your own instead of only feeling a slight warmth from the glow of other people’s-laced with all of its separate joys and struggles. While creating a soundtrack for a sea monster courtship might have been more exciting, the quietness of Longbourn with all of the tension felt by the inhabitants just rippling under the surface begged for some music. ![]() Baker has set herself apart from other modern attempts to rewrite Austen, even without the obvious exclusion of zombies or sea monsters, by taking the readers downstairs and making us care about the servants barely even mentioned, let alone named, in Pride and Prejudice. This is how you get from one world to the next.”Ī new book hitting the shelves and getting reviewers talking is Jo Baker’s novel, Longbourn. “There was the music and the clutter of voices from the big house, and the wind shoving and pulling at them, and she thought, I want this, I know I want this. ![]()
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