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The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel Paperback – March 2 2005

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The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their musical daughter Alethea makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming manners conceal an unpleasant nature. Flinging caution to the winds, she flees her marital home, masquerading as a gentleman, and accompanied only by her redoubtable maid, Figgins, she sets off for Venice to take refuge with her sister Camilla. But events -- always dramatic and sometimes dangerous -- conspire to thwart her plans. Before she can meet up with Camilla, chance and her love of music lead her into the world of Italian opera, while her encounter with the aloof and difficult Titus Manningtree, in Italy to pursue a lost Titian painting, is to change her life -- although fate has several more tricks to play before she can find happiness.
With wit, aplomb, and delectable style, Elizabeth Aston once again re-creates the world of Jane Austen, populating her novel with captivating characters firmly rooted in Austen's traditions but distinctly her own, resulting in another delightful comedy of manners, morals, and marriage.
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  1. Book 2 of 6
    Darcy series
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    368 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Touchstone
  5. Publication date
    March 2 2005
  6. Dimensions
    13.34 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0743261933
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0743261937
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In this delightful new chapter in the story of the Darcy clan, taken up by Ashton (Mr. Darcy's Daughters) where Austen left off, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy is in a pickle. Having married in haste, Alethea is now repenting bitterly, languishing under the unspeakable treatment of her horrid husband, Norris Napier. She escapes in the company of her intrepid maid, Figgins, and dressed as young men, they hare off to Europe to find Alethea's favorite and most sympathetic sister, Camilla. On the way, unbeknownst to them, they are found out by Mr. Titus Manningtree, who's off to Europe to find a Titian painting of his father's that has gone astray. Appalled by Alethea's apparent total disregard for her position and the requirements of polite society, Titus is nonetheless impressed by her courage and pluck. At first out of duty and then out of interest, he comes to her aid time and again, seeing her safe back to England. Once there, however, it is discovered that her husband was murdered, and she comes under suspicion. Both Titus and Alethea are captivating, and the quality of the characterizations saves the book from the plot confusions, too-easy tieups and too-modern sensibility that plague it.
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"Great characters, great comic moments, great romance."
-- Chicago Sun-Times

"Imagine poor Mr. Darcy with marriageable daughters of his own!...Aston takes us on a romp through late Regency society."
-- Julia Barrett, author of Jane Austen's Charlotte

"Those who enjoy Austen...will certainly enjoy Aston's work, as will historical fiction readers who want an engaging plot and characters."
-- Library Journal

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone; Original ed. edition (March 2 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743261933
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743261937
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 347 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Elizabeth Aston

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    I was born in Chile to an impeccably English father and a distinctly un-English Argentine mother. Educated by Benedictine nuns in Calcutta, Fabians in London, and Inklings at Oxford University, I'm now back in Oxford after spending several years in Italy.

    My books include the bestselling Darcy series - six romantic comedies and a novella set in the world of Jane Austen, and a contemporary novel, Writing Jane Austen. These were inspired by my love of Jane Austen - her heroes, her heroines and her wicked sense of humour.

    My Mountjoy novels depict the unholy, unquiet, and frequently unseemly goings-on of the Mountjoys of Mountjoy castle and their circle of friends and family, enhanced with a touch of magic and enchantment–I've always been fascinated by what lies just beyond our sight.

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    Elizabeth Edmondson

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    I write what I like to call Vintage Mysteries, since they're set in the nineteen-thirties, forties and fifties.

    They're stories of love and marriage, families and friendship, in which the loyalties, feuds, secrets and betrayals of the past cast long shadows into the present.

    I'm fascinated by characters who are quirky, mysterious, funny, unexpected and interesting and I want readers to share, as I do, in their joys and sorrows.

    With dramatic and glamorous settings from icy lakes to Italian villas, from wintry Budapest to fashionable France, from Cornwall to the Lake District, the landscapes are as powerful as the stories are complex.

    The tense realities of life mingle with supernatural elements : ghosts, prophetic dreams and voices from the past, but fun and humour also dance in and out of the light and darkness of the stories.

    My aim is to enthral, delight and amuse readers as they are transported to a different era.

    A review posted by a reader said my books take you out of the daily world and make the impossible seem possible--that's just what I want to do.

    I also write as Elizabeth Aston, and if you enjoyed VILLA IN ITALY, you might also enjoy VOLCANIC AIRS, which is set on an idyllic Sicilian island. It's one of the books in my Mountjoy series, so please visit my other author page and check out those books.

    A few biographical details: I was born in Chile, have lived in India and Italy and now live in Oxford, where I went to university--and where I've recently taken up bell-ringing.

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Yvonne P.
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book !
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2020
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Loved the book. I couldn’t put it down. I will probably read it again slowly to see what I missed.
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Lucy L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, fast, low stakes read
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Great for the beach or other free time reading. Fun and entertaining. You don't have to read all of her Darcy books in order, but it helps a little with the continuity of the overall story.
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Damaskcat
5.0 out of 5 stars Adventures in Europe
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I cannot agree with the previous two reviews except that if you're looking for Jane Austen you won't find her here. I really enjoyed the book and found it entertaining and exciting - especially the episodes in the Alps and Italy. If you read this author's website you will see she is not intending to imitate Austen but to carry on the stories with the next generation. I think the characters are well drawn and the writing fluent. Titus Manningtree is an interesting character as is Alethea Darcy. There must have been people like her who were impatient of the contraints of society otherwise we would never have had the women's suffrage movement later in the same century. I believe the freedom allowed to widows was far greater than that allowed to single women at the time and Alethea would have been able to set up her own establishment and virtually do what she wanted - especially if she lived in Europe. So for me these were not jarring notes in the book. This in my opinion is the sort of book either Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer might have written if they'd been writing today. I recommend it.
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A. W. Mallatratt
5.0 out of 5 stars It is a really good read and the authoress gives a very good imitation ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2016
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Book to add to your must read list.

It is a really good read and the authoress gives a very good imitation of the style of Jane Austen, which adds to the flavour of the Regency Period. I have no hesitation in recommending this book as a very good buy.
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Psyche
4.0 out of 5 stars very good!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2012
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Pride and Prejudice regency concept meets 'Twelth Night'. I liked the concept of a woman dressing as a man to escape her fate. It's unique. I admit that it's not my favorite of her series, but it was still fun, original, not another rip off copy of 'Pride and Prejudice' and the pace was perfectly fine. I think others are being a little too critical or anal retentive.
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