Lucas

I thought ease would come here tucked away in the safe uneventfulness of Hunsford. It would seem I was mistaken.In 1813 upon her marriage to Mr Collins the rector of Hunsford Parsonage Charlotte Collins née Lucas left her childhood home in Hertfordshire for Kent where she is set to live out her life as the parsons wife in an endless procession of dinners at Rosings Park household chores correspondence and minding her poultry. But Mrs Collins carries with her a secret a peculiar preference which is destined to turn all her carefully laid plans on their head.Lucas is a queer romance a mock-epistolary novel and a retelling and continuation of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice teeming with Regency references and Sturm und Drang. It is an homage to English literature--and a brazen revisionist fan fiction. But first and foremost it is a love story. Read it as you will.