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    • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
    • Pub. Date: November 2007
    • ISBN-13: 9780979893308
    • Sales Rank: 58,968
    • 444pp
     
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    While visiting Montclair, an 18th Century Georgian country house located in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, Maggie Joyce, a 22-year old American living in postwar London, is told that the former residents of the mansion, William Lacey and Elizabeth Garrison, were the inspiration for the characters of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's masterpiece, Pride & Prejudice, and that Montclair is the novel's Pemberley. During her visit to the nearby Village of Crofton, Maggie meets Beth and Jack Crowell, both of whom have ties to the Lacey family and Montclair, and who know if the legends associated with the house and Fitzwilliam Darcy are true. While exploring the truth behind the romance of Darcy and Elizabeth, Maggie is drawn into the love story of the Crowells, who married in the midst of the horrors of World War I, as well as her own love story with Rob McAllister, an American who flew on bombing missions over Germany during World War II, and who has returned to England for his own deeply personal reasons. Pemberley Remembered is a story of lovers who bridge class differences in Regency England, but it is also speaks to love and loss in postwar England.

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    April 16, 2008: This is more than just an Austen sequel. It is the story of Rob McAllister, who navigated a B-17 bomber during the war, and Maggie Joyce, a young American working in London. Together they investigate whether or not Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet were based on real characters. Historical nuggets in every chapter.

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    March 29, 2008: If you are a Jane Austen fan (you know who you are, and your number is legion),'Pemberely Remembered' is a fascinating treasure hunt through history. For others like me, whose knowledge of Jane Austen stops with Emma Thompson and Alicia Silverstone, this is still a heck of a read. Using 'Pride and Prejudice' as a road map and tour guide, author Mary Simonsen deftly weaves us through victory gardens, post-Blitz London, the beautiful Kentish countrside, and two world wars. Mary Simonsen's meticulously-researched historical novel paints a very realistic portrait of love amid the rubble of war. The book's protagonist, Maggie Joyce, not only uncovers secrets about Austen's perhaps not-so-fictional characters, she finds her own love story in post-WWII England that will enchant, and ultimately test her. Readers may want to stay alert in the early pages of the book when characters, both major and minor, come tumbling out at a brisk pace. But stick with it, because like caviar and single-malt scotch, 'Pemberely Remembered' is well worth the effort once you get the hang of it.


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