For the discussion of published Jane Austen-based novels and other books of interest to Dwiggies.https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/list.php?16Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:38:18 +0100 Phorum 5.2.22 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131534,131534#msg-131534 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131534,131534#msg-131534 G. L. Kriewald JAFF LibraryThu, 29 May 2025 20:40:41 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131305,131305#msg-131305 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131305,131305#msg-131305Pemberley Beach are now available!

Pemberley Beach is a contemporary reimagining of Jane Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. Set in a picturesque seashore resort, the story follows Elizabeth Bennet, who resides in a humble trailer park on the outskirts of town. Her life intertwines in unexpected ways with Will Darcy, whose imposing beachfront estate, Pemberley, stands as a symbol of wealth and privilege. As the two navigate the complexities of class, family, and romance, they must confront their preconceived ideas of each other and resolve dramatic misunderstandings.

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Backcover Blurb:

In Pemberley Beach, worlds collide at a high-society party where Will Darcy slights Elizabeth Bennet’s looks, setting the stage for their tumultuous relationship, fueled by wit, pride and an undercurrent of desire.

A contemporary twist on Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley Beach is set amongst the sun and sand of a modern seashore resort where Elizabeth’s quest to escape the trailer park she grew up in leads her into the path of arrogant Darcy, owner of beachfront Pemberley estate.

Elizabeth’s playful, teasing remarks are hard to ignore, and Darcy battles his unwitting attraction to her as his best friend starts dating Elizabeth’s older sister Jane. Suspicion about the Bennet girls’ reputation as “gold diggers” triggers controversy and misunderstandings.

After some verbal sparring at a private pool club, Darcy propositions Elizabeth — not with marriage as in the original Pride and Prejudice but with sex. She turns him down, giving him a tongue lashing he’ll never forget.

Contrite, Darcy apologizes and invites Elizabeth to a swanky jazz party at Pemberley. Sparks fly. What would their families and friends say if they started dating?

Enter seductive Wickham, Darcy’s nemesis, who poisons Elizabeth’s mind with outrageous stories about Darcy’s cruelty toward “his social inferiors.” Wickham, who’s as handsome as Darcy, does more than flirt with Elizabeth, and then uses his allure on her 18-year-old sister Lydia, weaving a web of deception and indiscretion that jeopardizes not only Elizabeth’s reputation but her burgeoning career as a music teacher.

Amid the escalating scandal, which has the whole town whispering, Darcy is confronted with a choice: give up on his undeniable feelings for Elizabeth or take a stand against the idea that Pemberley Beach would be polluted by someone like her.

Author Bio:

Elizabeth Famous, a bestselling author celebrated for her evocative love stories featuring authentic, imperfect characters, revels in navigating the complexities often sidestepped in traditional romance. Her debut novel, Love and Candy, was a poignant exploration of first love, and her second work, Light, Bright & Sparkling, followed the compelling tale of an aspiring singer/dancer.

With an unwavering passion for Jane Austen, Famous draws inspiration from the iconic author in her latest endeavor, Pemberley Beach.]]> Elizabeth Famous JAFF LibraryTue, 21 May 2024 14:07:40 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131233,131233#msg-131233 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131233,131233#msg-131233 April Karber JAFF LibraryTue, 12 Dec 2023 19:47:07 +0000 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131232,131232#msg-131232 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131232,131232#msg-131232 tallgal12 JAFF LibraryMon, 08 Apr 2024 00:34:50 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131068,131068#msg-131068 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,131068,131068#msg-131068 Nanny13 JAFF LibrarySun, 20 Aug 2023 17:27:59 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129964,129964#msg-129964 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129964,129964#msg-129964 Bien Baez JAFF LibraryFri, 29 Oct 2021 17:59:58 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129662,129662#msg-129662 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129662,129662#msg-129662 MayaG JAFF LibraryTue, 01 Jun 2021 19:31:52 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129639,129639#msg-129639 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129639,129639#msg-129639 Leilla JAFF LibraryWed, 04 Sep 2024 12:09:29 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129588,129588#msg-129588 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129588,129588#msg-129588 x JAFF LibraryMon, 29 Apr 2024 07:31:50 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129351,129351#msg-129351 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129351,129351#msg-129351
Thanks for any help you have give me.]]> EvelynJean JAFF LibraryWed, 18 Aug 2021 03:59:30 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129060,129060#msg-129060 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,129060,129060#msg-129060-G.Wms.]]> G.Williams JAFF LibraryFri, 03 Jul 2020 14:45:02 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,128814,128814#msg-128814 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,128814,128814#msg-128814
Available on Amazon Kindle eBook, a short steamy P&P wedding night story.]]> Robin Chamberlayne JAFF LibrarySat, 25 Apr 2020 04:50:25 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,128586,128586#msg-128586 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,128586,128586#msg-128586This story has been bugging me for awhile now lol

Any other stories where Elizabeth is royalty are welcome too. Thanks! ;)]]> accumbion JAFF LibraryThu, 18 Mar 2021 12:57:13 +0000 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,127703,127703#msg-127703 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,127703,127703#msg-127703 Carolineonestopshop JAFF LibraryFri, 25 May 2018 21:58:11 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,127259,127259#msg-127259 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,127259,127259#msg-127259I'm trying to find the title of a P&P based book I read some time ago. In it Elizabeth had a hope journal where she wrote thoughts that cheered or helped her. She reached out to Georgiana who was very depressed, I think by being assaulted by Wickham. Much of the book was about offering forgiveness to those who wrong you. I think Elizabeth had been exiled from home and was living with the Gardiners.
I've searched but I can't find this book again.
Does anyone recognize it?
THANK YOU
--Sammi]]> Sammi JAFF LibraryThu, 22 Feb 2018 20:29:11 +0000 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,126856,126856#msg-126856 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,126856,126856#msg-126856 Emelyn JAFF LibraryThu, 23 Nov 2017 00:34:06 +0000 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,115601,115601#msg-115601 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,115601,115601#msg-115601
I don't know if anyone here has read the Parasol Protectorate series - if you haven't, it's a lighthearted, witty romp through a steampunk&fantasy Victorian London with werewolves, vampires, airships and the works. The author, unfortunately, doesn't have a very firm grip on the titles of nobility (which is a bit of a bother because one of the main characters has one of those and gets addressed all sorts of wrongly) but that is really the only irk I have with them. They're funny, engaging and very refreshingly, very positive towards non-heternormative gender representations and romances.

Anyway, for those who *have* read them, I have a question about the last (fifth) book, so, spoilers below.



*SPOILERS*





Why did the Egyptian vampire queen need Prudence or Alexia to touch her in order to die? Couldn't she just have had the Chancellor impale her (after all, it worked on Walsingham), or, since apparently she was on constant blood supplies, have him starve her? I get that pretty much the whole plot of the book would implode if Alexia didn't travel to Alexandria, but I don't get this part. Or is it that vampire queens cannot be impaled like other vampires?

I'd be glad if anyone knows or can make a guess!]]> Mari A. JAFF LibraryThu, 07 May 2015 13:04:20 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,99352,99352#msg-99352 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,99352,99352#msg-99352 Renee B JAFF LibraryMon, 01 Jul 2013 23:39:22 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,97133,97133#msg-97133 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,97133,97133#msg-97133
Clara appears, and an ice-cream parlour!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaf3F_jacIs&list=SP_ePOdU-b3xeIJZtHVbO2rtSkoNp63bjR]]> Mari A. JAFF LibraryFri, 16 Jun 2017 09:52:57 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95884,95884#msg-95884 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95884,95884#msg-95884
I've just read 9 and 10. Interesting how Miss Lambe is half mulatto (is that 1/2 or 1/4?) and still a desirable party, when origins were so all important. How was the black population in the West Indies viewed then? Was there a sort of gentry or even middle class?

The Miss Beauforts remind me of the Miss Musgroves.]]> Lise JAFF LibraryThu, 02 May 2013 18:04:57 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95403,95403#msg-95403 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95403,95403#msg-95403
What really struck me on this listen was how many servant were involved in the first chapter. Its not often we see them in JA's writing. The driver of the carriage is thought to have potentially overturned them on purpose. The men who came to assist were from the fields of Mr. Heywood. The fact that women and children were also working the fields was really striking to me!

And then, as I heard Mr. Parker wax on and on about Sanditon while his wife stands by and Mr. Heywood tries to get him to the house, I realized the men were all there listening, waiting to right the carriage!

Thoughts?]]> Debra Mc JAFF LibrarySat, 13 Apr 2013 18:43:25 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95364,95364#msg-95364 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95364,95364#msg-95364
Diana Parker isn't quite as much of an invalid as she claims, if she could walk as swiftly as she did, catching up with Charlotte on the way to Trafalgar House! Don't know yet about Arthur and the other Parker sister (whose name escapes me at the moment). Will Sidney make an appearance before chapter 11 ends? I want to see him!

I thought the "short chain of connection" between Diana and the West Indies family was pretty funny -- had a few missing links after all, didn't it?!]]> Carol P JAFF LibrarySat, 13 Apr 2013 18:49:36 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95349,95349#msg-95349 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95349,95349#msg-95349
Sanditon, etc]]> Debra Mc JAFF LibrarySat, 13 Apr 2013 16:17:13 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95323,95323#msg-95323 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95323,95323#msg-95323 Suzanne O JAFF LibrarySat, 13 Apr 2013 12:19:55 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95127,95127#msg-95127 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,95127,95127#msg-95127
So in chapter 5 we read that horrific letter from Diana Parker--poor Susan! three teeth and leaches!--and in chapter 6 we go to the library, where apparently they also had a store, and meet Clara and Lady Denham.

Thoughts?]]> Suzanne O JAFF LibraryThu, 11 Apr 2013 11:14:11 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94967,94967#msg-94967 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94967,94967#msg-94967
I'll admit I've only read part of chapter 3 so far, RL keeps getting in my way. But first impressions, to be modified as needed by subsequent reading....

Lady Denham and Mr. Parker at first seemed to have something of a Lady Cat/Mr. Collins relationship...but as the chapter goes on, it seems that Lady Denham is neither as noble and Mr. Parker not as much of a sycophant as our similar pair from P&P. I hope we get to meet Lady Denham "in the flesh" before the end of Chapter 11.

Just getting a bit of an impression now that Charlotte Heywood is as sharp an observer of humanity as Lizzy B. (I can't seem to help relating things back to P&P, I'll try not to do that as much in future.)

Will Clara Brereton and Charlotte be friends or rivals when they meet? Reading on now....]]> Carol P JAFF LibraryFri, 05 Apr 2013 22:12:29 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94713,94713#msg-94713 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94713,94713#msg-94713Sanditon needn't bother with Team FiGi! ;-)

So Carol suggested below that Gigi could take over the place of Charlotte Heywood in the novel - an intriguing possibility! What do you all think?]]> Mari A. JAFF LibrarySat, 06 Apr 2013 16:34:37 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94692,94692#msg-94692 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94692,94692#msg-94692
My primary reaction was to remember why Jane Austen was always considered a humorist rather than a romance writer, and how much she loves character studies. She takes her time setting up the story, not rushing right in as we modern writers do, and as a result provides a rich backdrop against which to set the main action of her story.]]> Suzanne O JAFF LibrarySat, 06 Apr 2013 16:34:36 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94151,94151#msg-94151 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,94151,94151#msg-94151Sanditon: Sanditon @ girlebooks

Has anyone had any ideas yet how to organise this? Does anybody want to play prompter/host? Do we want to assign special topics or just see where we end up? Do we want to discuss fanfic opportunities too, and possibilities for the vlog-series?

In the copy I linked above, there are eleven chapters, so if we want to be done by May (which is when the series is supposed to start), how about we start at Easter and then do two chapters per week? Other suggestions for a schedule?]]> Mari A. JAFF LibraryFri, 29 Mar 2013 09:14:08 +0000 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,87471,87471#msg-87471 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,87471,87471#msg-87471Harold Fry, a quite unimpressing man, goes to post a postcard and while on his way decides to deliver it by hand. His pilgrimage starts in Kingsbridge and leads him to Berwick upon Tweed. On his way he enjoys nature, meets interesting and uninteresting people and most of all, evaluates his life. His relationship with his wife and son, his friendship with Queenie (the woman towards whom his journey leads) and most of all himself.

The style in which it is written is wonderful, and it is almost impossible not to feel for the lead character. I am now about half through the book and half through Harold's journey. And while Harold is walking, his wife Maureen (who is left at home, without quite knowing why her husband of many years is walking this insane route) makes a journey of her own.
I love it so far. It makes you smile, and yes, it makes you cry.

If you enjoyed Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, you should definitely give this one a try.]]> Karen A JAFF LibraryMon, 24 Sep 2012 18:37:35 +0100