Precipitation

by Helen Baker

We all know Caroline Bingley because the Bennet family suffered from her duplicity. Can such a woman ever be a heroine? In fact she struggled against obstacles which make Lizzy Bennet's vulgar relations appear trivial.'Superb! I have spent a leisurely and extremely enjoyable two days reading Precipitation... this was SO enjoyable I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it.'

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2014

Reviews

[Tammy Buchli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this. I confess I do like the Austen sequels, but they mostly seem to center on the same old characters -- mostly out of Pride and Prejudice -- and some, I'm sorry to say, are VERY poorly written. Baker does a creditable job at the writing and research side; and she focuses on books and characters that haven't been so very overused. The first of hers I read was about Mary Crawford, so far as I know the only sequel to focus on Mary. It was a lot of fun, and did a believable job of rehabilitating one of Austen's "villains." Of course, Mary wasn't all that villainous -- I'm certainly not the only reader who found her more interesting and likable than boring old Fanny.

This second one was about Caroline Bingley and I anticipated that making *her* likable was going to be difficult. But Baker managed it. And she managed it without altering the character to an unbelievable extent. I'm definitely going to be reading more of Baker's books!