The Mermaid's Child

By Jo Baker

Longbourn

By Jo Baker

The servants at Longbourn estate--only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic--take centre stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: se...

A Country Road A Tree

By Jo Baker

Longbourn

By Jo Baker

A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying t...

Country Road a Tree

By Jo Baker

Offcomer

By Jo Baker

Longbourn

By Jo Baker

'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, ' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.' It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and...

A country road a tree

By Jo Baker

Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette wit...

The Undertow

By Anna Bentinck, Jo Baker

Longbourn

By Jo Baker