A Heliotrope Ribbon
(2024)A taster for Pride and Perjury
(A book in the Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen series)
A Novella by Alice McVeigh
In this taster for McVeigh's full-length Pride and Perjury, we have a tale omitted from Austen's masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. Lydia Bennet is visiting Brighton under the protection of Colonel Forster, who's concerned about the local reputation of his enlisted men as well as several of his officers - George Wickham among them. Meanwhile, Wickham is secretly courting Mrs Townsend, an exceedingly wealthy young widow. Harriet Forster and Lydia might tease him for his attentions to her but... how serious is Wickham in his pursuit? And could such a marriage be the making of him, after all?
"McVeigh's prose and plotting are pitch perfect - she echoes the master herself" - Publishers Weekly
Genre: Literary Fiction
"McVeigh's prose and plotting are pitch perfect - she echoes the master herself" - Publishers Weekly
Genre: Literary Fiction
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