Dreaming Pemberley

<p>Who can ever get enough of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? Who doesn't dream of strolling through stately shrubberies? Of reveling in Regency lore-where luxury is silken manners are refined and the language reflects exquisite sensitivities and a decorum whose bonds we have managed to escape yet we still find charmingly quaint?</p><p>Dreaming Pemberley is a mini-saga composed of four dreams that carry the Bennets Darcys Collins and their friends forward in their lives through two generations.</p><p>Their journeys are fraught with painful detours and misunderstandings and they are forced to grapple with character flaws as well as dastardly acquaintances. At one point a member of the Collins household is deemed a witch! In the fourth dream the famed equanimity of Pemberley is threatened by a disruptive cat.</p><p>However felicity and redemption are persistent threads and we rejoice when Anne de Bourgh's personhood is allowed to blossom even though Lady Catherine de Bourgh feels strongly abused.</p><p>Mystery and surprise are found at various twists and turns. Georgiana's fate is beyond belief. And the late Mrs. Darcy's long-locked tea room engenders a renown that spreads as far as London-much to Mr. Darcy's chagrin.</p><p>Over all the gracious gentility that pervades Pemberley is a force for good and does much to soothe hearts and hurts.</p>