Longbourn is the story of Pride and Prejudice from the
perspective of the servants. Baker has
given names to the servants that are nameless in the original book and
personalities to everyone and told the story behind the scenes. The book mostly focuses on Sarah, the older
housemaid, who has been working there since she was taken in as a child from
the poorhouse. She is now a young adult
and beginning to have our own opinions and want her own life. She becomes smitten with the new footman,
James Smith but James has a past that he won’t share with anyone at Longbourn
and their future is uncertain. The book
also tells a fair amount about Mrs. Hill, the housekeeper and cook, and Polly,
the younger housemaid. We do get some
satisfactory explanations about the characters before the story’s end. All in all, I thought it was a good
story. Fans of Pride and Prejudice will
probably find it interesting but I think that many fans of historical fiction
would like it also.
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