By Patience and by Paper
Volume I
By Fable and by Fact
One lie, told in a London parlour. One letter, never taken out of a coat pocket. Neither stays where it was put.
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A single season in which four families discover what their decisions have actually cost, the whole bill presented at once, and nobody expects who is standing ready to pay it.
Caroline Bingley tells a lie, and expects it to stay in the room where it was spoken. Lies, in her experience, are poor travellers. This one is an exception. Fitzwilliam Darcy asked for an answer and was given one, and it takes him a great while, and much humility, to understand that an answer was never the thing worth having.
As in this author's other novels, the drawing room is not the only room in the house.
- Length
- Just over 110,000 words
- Angst
- Medium to high
- Reader advisory
- Bereavement, an elopement soberly handled, and subtle references to mature themes. A handkerchief and a sense of humour are advised.
- Happily ever after
- Yes, for our dear couple.