The Darcy Cousins by Monica Fairview

The Darcy Cousins by Monica Fairview

Scandal, Mischef and Mayhem Arrive At Pemberley...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continues ...

Having enjoyed ‘The Other Mr Darcy’  I was very much looking forward to reading The Darcy Cousins and I was not disappointed.

It cracked along at a great pace with plenty of emotion and action.

Robert Darcy who has married Caroline Bingley is joined by his younger brother and sister fresh out of Boston on the first boat after the war.

The whole family are at Rosing for the first Easter get together since Lady Catherine’s break with Darcy and Elizabeth.

The story focuses on the three girl cousins, Anne De Bourgh, Georgina Darcy  and Clarissa Darcy.

The Two Darcy girls become firm friends and try to bring Anne out of her shell with disastrous consequences.

Georgina and Clarissa have to face their first London season and their coming out, a mine field of heart break and double dealing.

It is quite good to see Georgina written as a teenager quite capable of tantrums and erratic behavior.

Having myself  15, 19 and 21 year old children I feel I can myself  relate to teenagers quite well and these girls ring true.

The petty rivalries made for a nice comic touch and the first stumbling steps to finding love with many false starts and misunderstandings were very much a homage to Pride and Prejudice with plenty of both getting in the way.

Altogether this book is definitely up there with my favorites and great to get back to something with a smart gripping pace.

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The Other Mr Darcy by Monica Fairview

The Other Mr Darcy by Monica Fairview

Unpredictable Courtships Run In The Darcy Family

This is the story of Robert Darcy Esq of Boston and Caroline Bingley.

This is a Caroline still haughty but not as waspish and cruel as Jane Austen’s original version, although she is hard to like Monica Fairview’s, Caroline, manages to engage some sympathy for a lady constrained by her upbringing and the social structures of her time.

When Fitzwilliam Darcy the man she had longed to be Married to, does a very fine impression of Lady Catherine deBurgh and dresses Caroline down totally and severely, I actually felt for her.

It makes a change to have Caroline as a central character and the other leading Pride and Prejudice characters circulate around the story quite well.

Lydia Bennett arrives in the tale as thoughtless and unpleasant as ever. A sickly Elizabeth is confined to her couch for most of the tale and that is a shame as some of the sparks you would expect to fly are lost. That said there is plenty to entertain.

The first chapter of this book is so amusing that you have to read on, I won’t give anything away but laughed heartily and enjoyed a book that on first impressions I was not at all sure about.

Pick up a copy of The Other Mr Darcy, find a comfy spot and settle down for a good read.