Jo Baker
1) Longbourn
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sara, an orphaned housemaid.
2) The telling
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A ghost story of the most unusual kind, The Telling is a thrilling--and sometimes chilling--tale about two women, separated by almost two centuries, grappling with change and loss"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Longbourn comes a story of survival and determination, of spies and artists, passion and danger—a portrait of Samuel Beckett’s wartime experiences in Paris.
“Exquisitely crafted.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
In 1939 Paris, the ground rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées, and a young, unknown writer, recently...
“Exquisitely crafted.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
In 1939 Paris, the ground rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées, and a young, unknown writer, recently...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz-a story of WWII intrigue, love, and danger. It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France, Charlotte has moved away from her overbearing father...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is assaulted by a jogger on a busy road in South London. Three years later her a job at a university in the remote English countryside is meant to be a fresh start. When one of her students starts turning in chapters that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognizes herself as the main character in his book-- and he has written her a horrific fate. Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late?...