Six years after the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy life is good on on Darcy's beautiful Pemberley Estate. They have 2 little boys, her beloved sister Jane lives nearby and Elizabeth is looking forward to Pemberley's annual autumn ball. The only blight on this happy picture is sister Lydia, married to that cad Mr. Wickham, who will NEVER by welcome at Pemberley again. Until the night before the ball when Lydia's carriage comes tearing up the drive, Lydia screaming to all that will listen, "Wickham's dead! Denny has shot him! They're up there in the woodland. Oh God, I know he's dead!" So instead of a ball, Pemberly has a mystery with many questions to be answered. Why were Lydia and Wickham in Pemberley's woodland? Who fired the shots heard by Lydia? Is there a murderer loose on the estate? Will Elizabeth's mother continue to embarrass her family? Will Darcy's sister find true love? Many things besides death are yet to be resolved in this sequel to Pride and Prejudice, and P. D. James handles the task brilliantly.
Read Death Comes to Pemberley. It will transport you back 200 years in time and place, but you will find much that seems familiar. So enjoy your visit to the early 1800's and be glad that we live in 2013!
No comments:
Post a Comment