The Clergyman's Wife

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Steam Rating: 🍆/5

Thank you to William Morrow for gifting me a review copy of The Clergyman’s Wife: A Pride and Prejudice Novel, by Molly Greeley.

I’ve read a number of Pride and Prejudice spin-offs and fan fiction novels, and to be honest they have all fallen very, very short. However, this book is wonderful. It will take you right back to Austen’s world, while exploring supporting characters in a completely charming way.

Greeley does such a wonderful job of creating the world of the parsonage and town that you’ll feel like you’re there. And the characters are so real, flawed, dimensional and lovable that you’ll fly through this book, not wanting to put it down.

It is no small task to continue on from such a beloved story, but the author has pulled it off delightfully.

I started reading this book and then switched to the audiobook version, which made me love it even more. Susie Riddle is a wonderful narrator and a pleasure to listen to. Now if only I could hire her to read everything in my day-to-day life to me…

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Synopsis:

Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine..

In Mr. Travis’ company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard, and seen. For the first time in her life, Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart—and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman’s life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman’s wife.