Book Club 1.1.15

Our book club. So about 6 years ago, Kim, Mom, and I started a book club.  It's just the three of us, so it's pretty low key and we're horrible about meeting to talk about the books.  But it's still fun to recommend books to each other.  Maybe this year we'll be better about meeting.  Anyway, I decided that it would be a good idea to keep better track of what we're reading.  So, this year my goal is to take pictures of the books and post them here in hopes of remembering what we've read over the years.  So, here is Kim's pick for January...Longbourn by Jo Baker.

(The servants of the Bennett estate manage their own set of dramas in this vivid re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice. While the marriage prospects of the Bennett girls preoccupy the family upstairs, downstairs the housekeeper Mrs. Hill has her hands full managing the staff that keeps Longbourn running smoothly: the young housemaids, Sarah and Polly; the butler, Mr. Hill; and the mysterious new footman, James Smith, who bears a secret connection to Longbourn. At the heart of the novel is a budding romance between James and orphan-turned-housemaid Sarah, whose dutiful service belies a ferocious need for notice, an insistence that she fully be taken into account. When an expected turn of events separates the young lovers, Sarah must contend with James's complicated past and the never-ending demands of the Bennetts. )