Expectations

This book is for those readers of Pride and Prejudice who might want to know what happened after the weddings of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet. In it they will again encounter Mr. Bennet and his heir, Mr. Collins, the formidable Lady Catherine de Burgh, and Mr. Collins' wife, Charlotte. There will be glimpses of Lizzie and Jane, and their husbands as well as of Mary, Kitty and Lydia and the Gardiners. However the story must needs have a new heroine and concerns itself more with Phoebe, the daughter of Lady Catherine's estranged niece and a naval officer. The author hopes that she has not taken too many liberties with Miss Austen's characters and that the readers of this pastiche will enjoy it as much as she has enjoyed writing it