The Other Bennet Sister (Janice Hadlow, 2020)
Mary Bennet’s own novel: the bookish middle sister, during the story and long after it.
Mary is the plainest, most mocked sister. What if the novel had been hers?
You want a long, kind book about the sister nobody picked.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the family and the events of the novel, through Mary’s eyes.
Changes: the heroine, and the timeline: most of the book follows Mary after her sisters are married, as she makes her own way.
Mary Bennet, bookish and overlooked, moves beyond what her family expects of her and finds her own way.
Whose story is it?
Mary’s.
How much time does it ask?
480 pages in paperback.
Janice Hadlow; Holt Paperbacks, 6 April 2021, 480 pages.
Where to find it
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More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition