Season in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

For twenty-seven years, Anne de Bourgh sat in a chair and said nothing. She was not unwell. She was waiting.Lady Catherine de Bourgh is dead. Rosings Park passes to her daughter Anne, who is twenty-seven, in considerably better health than anyone has been permitted to know, and entirely clear-eyed about what she intends to do with her freedom.  Her first act as mistress of Rosings: dissolve the engagement to Darcy. Her second: write to Elizabeth Bennet and ask her to come to Kent. Her third: write to Darcy. She does not tell either of them about the other. What follows is a season at Rosings that contains more than anyone bargained for: the slow repair of what went wrong at Hunsford, the discovery of a scandal buried in the estate accounts for twenty years, and the careful work of a woman learning, for the first time, what it is to manage a life rather than be managed by one.A Season in Kent is for readers who have always suspected that the most interesting person in the room was the quiet one in the corner, and who want to see what happens when she finally stands up.