Lydia Bennet's Story: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Odiwe

Overview

Lydia Bennet is the flirtatious, wild and free-wheeling youngest daughter. Her untamed expressiveness and vulnerability make her fascinating to readers who'll love this imaginative rendering of Lydia's life after her marriage to the villainous George Wickham. Will she mature or turn bitter? Can a girl like her really find true love?

In Lydia Bennet's Story we are taken back to Jane Austen's most beloved novel, Pride and Prejudice, to a Regency world seen through Lydia's eyes where pleasure and marriage are the only pursuits. But the road to matrimony is fraught with difficulties and even when she is convinced that she has met the man of her dreams, complications arise. When Lydia is reunited with the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys for a grand ball at Netherfield Park, the shocking truth about her husband may just cause the greatest scandal of all ...

"A breathtaking Regency romp!"—Diana Birchall, author of Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402234651
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jane Odiwe (UK) is an artist and author. She is an avid fan of all things Austen and is the author and illustrator of Effusions of Fancy, annotated sketches from the life of Jane Austen. She lives with her husband and three children in North London.

Jane Odiwe is an artist and author. She is an avid fan of all things Austen and is the author and illustrator of Effusions of Fancy, annotated sketches from the life of Jane Austen, as well as Lydia Bennet's Story. She lives with her husband and three children in North London.

Editorial Reviews

"Her new acquaintances are interesting and well developed, and Wickham is just as scandalous as ever. The ending will be a complete surprise." - ForeWord's This Week

"Jane Odiwe has caught Lydia's gushing, breathless manner beautifully in those parts of the book which are purporting to be her diary...I daresay Lydia would have written like this, all dash and full of enthusiasm." - Random Jottings

"Lydia Bennet's Story...is rollicking good fun with a surpise twist." - Austenprose

"The author nicely makes use of existing material on Lydia Bennet to incorporate, and later expand on, in her own style to craft a story that's overall fun and makes for light, entertaining reading." - A Book Blogger's Diary

"Odiwe's writing style made me feel almost as though I were actually reading Austen... [Her] story of Lydia's adventures shows her strength and shows that there's more to the flighty Bennet sister than meets the eye." - Diary of an Eccentric

"The term "sequel," I am happy to report, has no application whatsoever to Jane Owide's delightful novel, Lydia Bennet's Story." - A Reader's Respite

"I enjoyed Lydia Bennet's Story immensely. It was a fun story with everything I love about good Regency fiction - good writing, plenty of period descriptions and background information that lend authenticity, and romance that is exciting but not over the top. " - Ex Libris

"Readers of Jane Austen and Austen enthusiasts will enjoy this novel, but even those readers looking for a fast-paced "romance" will enjoy Lydia Bennet's Story." - Savvy Verse & Wit

"All in all, Lydia Bennett's Story is an entertaining story, which shows Lydia in a sympathetic light. Ms. Odiwe does something, that I thought nearly impossible--redeem Lydia Bennett." - Once Upon a Romance

"I believe this is a fantastic Austen sequel, because it changes nothing of the original Austen creations, instead it digs deeper and adds more personality to a secondary character creating a story line that veers in another direction." - Book Zombie

"I highly recommend this book to fans of Jane Austen or Regency romances." - Historical Novels Review

"If the reader is comfortable with non-canonical Austen paraliterature, we think she will find Lydia Bennet's Story an absorbing read; and those who think they are not comfortable with such stories might enjoy it in spite of themselves." - Austen Blog

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