Longbourn

Inspired...Baker has written an intoxicating love story but, also like Austen, the pleasure of her novel lies in its wit and fierce intelligence. Longbourn is a profound exploration of injustice, of poverty and dependence, of loyalty...a novel that contrives both to provoke the intellect and, ultimately, to stop the heart * Guardian *
Jo Baker gives us the story from the servants' perspectives and pulls off the seemingly impossible: a completely fresh take on Jane Austen. Utterly engrossing. * Guardian *
ONES TO WATCH Just enough Darcy to delight, as well as being a fascinating insight into the harsh working conditions of life in a grand house 200 years ago * Good Housekeeping *
Debut novelist Jo Baker takes the reader on a journey back to a version of Regency England that is as much about poverty and war as social comedy and romance * Metro *
This clever glimpse of Austen’s universe clouded by washday steam is so compelling it leaves you wanting to read the next chapter in the lives below stairs * Daily Express *
GREAT READS: Pride and Prejudice reimagined as a mysterious manservant stirs up passions in the Bennet household both upstairs and down * Woman and Home *
Captivating and delicious. A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world beyond the margins and outside the parlours of Pride and Prejudice * Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE *
The much-loved Pride and Prejudice is shaken up and given the grit that Jane Austen could never include - with great success * Evening Standard *
A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling * Financial Times *
Superb... The lightest of touches by a highly accomplished young writer * Mail on Sunday *