Julia Henkelmann
Snobs & Silly Mothers by Julia Henkelmann
Being Jane Austen’s most well-known (and, well, bitchy) romantic hero surely is the easy life. Except that most of what Fitzwilliam Darcy had to say ended up on the floor of the cutting room.
So what exactly did Miss Elizabeth tell him on those walks in Rosings that sounded like “please drop by and propose already”? And how did it come about that he visited his sister just days before she was about to ruin her life by eloping with her childhood friend and all-round scoundrel?
For that matter, how was Darcy‘s life and personality influenced by growing up next to a cheat, liar and budding adulterer, watching even his own father being taken in by the little blighter?
And talking about a lack of perception, how does he deal with having a best friend whose routine in any new place is „make himself acquainted with everybody of higher status than the green grocer – acquire invitations to the next village dance – immortally fall in love with the resident ‘most beautiful women I have met in all my life’ who, on a good day, will _not_ turn out to be closely related to the green grocer” ?
And how did the resulting Jerk With a Heart of Gold experience his encounter with yet another determined mother on the hunt and her gaggle of daughters?
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