The Secret Diary of Anne de Bourgh (Pride & Prejudice Variations) by Catherine Bilson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Catherine Bilson
- Language: English
- Genre: Romance
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Lady Catherine de Bourgh will do far worse than dictate whom her daughter marries. For ten years, she has kept Anne weak, frightened, and dependent on a doctor who bleeds her every Monday.
Anne has pinned her hopes on the one future that might free her from Rosings: marriage to Mr Darcy. When he weds Elizabeth Bennet instead, she is trapped with her mother and her medicines, facing a future she cannot bear to contemplate.
Desperate, Anne confides in Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam. He listens, sees what the treatments have done to her, and refuses to let the doctor near her again. As Lady Catherine’s secrets come to light, Anne discovers how much of her life has been stolen, and how fiercely her mother intends to hold on to Rosings.
Safe at last, Anne begins to recover among people who welcome her opinions as readily as her company. She makes friends, learns to trust her own strength, and falls in love with Richard. But when Richard encourages Anne to consider Mr Byerly, a wealthy and attentive gentleman, she takes it as proof that he does not return her feelings. Yet Mr Byerly admires Rosings, the one place Anne cannot bear to call home. Anne must weigh the security of a respectable match against the risk of returning to the house she escaped, all while trying to quiet a heart that refuses to give Richard up.
Told through Anne’s candid, often wry diary, this Pride and Prejudice continuation follows a woman learning to live beyond her mother’s version of her: stronger than anyone expected, and ready to choose a home and a love of her own.
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