Georgiana Darcy’s London Season & Caroline Bingley’s Coup de Foudre
The Elizabeth Bennet Series Book 4
The family gathering at Netherfield over the Easter of 1799 has finished and all is well. Everything can return to normal. Except that Caroline Bingley has offered to sponsor Georgiana Darcy’s London Season. So the two set off from Netherfield full of hopes and plans. A round of parties, balls, trips to the theatre and more are promised.
Caroline arranges every diversion for Georgiana suitable for a young lady’s ‘coming out’. Georgiana is already madly in love with an Earl’s younger son, Daniel Barton, whom she met over Easter during balls at Meryton and Lucas Lodge. It seems a promising beginning. And Georgiana’s beauty and angelic qualities cannot fail to attract the attention of other young men.
Of course, Caroline is human too and, denied the society of Darcy after his marriage to Lizzy Bennet last year, it isn’t long before she feels the earth shake beneath her feet, the very foundations of her rigid view of things beginning to crumble.
An interesting few months follow. How will the two ladies cope with the events which unfold? Caroline certainly finds that having a young, fanciful girl in her charge brings unexpected challenges. Georgiana learns some valuable lessons and becomes increasingly aware of what essentially matters to her.
Lizzy and Darcy exercise guidance where possible.
Gill Mather
I was a practising solicitor for several decades and at various times worked in most of the basic areas covered by general practice in England (crime, family, employment, civil litigation, wills, probate and property). I ran a small solicitor’s practice from my home near Colchester until 2020. I’m a member of several writers’ groups in Essex and Suffolk, and also a member of Dedham Players. Some of my earlier novels were originally published under the pen name of Julie Langham.
My love of reading led to writing informally on and off during the 1990s and 2000s but I thought the ‘day job’ didn’t allow time for me to write more seriously. In about 2013 I made a firm decision to find the time and started work on a romantic/crime novel set in a solicitors’ practice, ‘Internment’. This turned into 5 novels in the same series, Colchester Law World charting the lives of different characters over about 10 years… READ MORE
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