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Pemberley by the Sea: A modern love story, Pride and Prejudice style - Abigail Reynolds

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Manufacturer : Sourcebooks Landmark
Release date : 1 October 2008
ISBN-10 : 1402213565 | ISBN-13 : 9781402213564

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Marine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab. Silent and aloof, Calder Westing III doesn't seem to offer anything but a famous family name. But there is more to Calder than ... (more)


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Posted : 1 year ago at Dec 7 20:06
Cassie Boulton, marine biologist, spends her summers doing research in Woods Hole. One summer, the wealthy Calder Westing appears in her life, and to say that things don’t start well would be an understatement - he comes across as being extremely haughty, doesn’t enjoy folk dances and doesn’t inspire conversation. And yet there is no denying that there is some sort attraction between the two, though Cassie believes Calder’s only interested in a summer fling until he rewrites Pride and Prejudice with the two of them as the main characters. The back of the book claims that this book is “Pride and Prejudice with sun, sand seafood, and surf,” but I think this is a little bit misleading. It’s not your typical retelling of a Jane Austen story. Most of the ones that I have read t...Read more

Rating : 7/10