The Perils of Proximity: An Anthology of Pride and Prejudice Variations

Eight authors of Pride and Prejudice variations imagine Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet pushed into uncomfortably close quarters, by storms and sickrooms, by garden sheds and curses, by the cruel and convenient hand of fate.

A thrown letter at the bottom of a well unleashes consequences no one could have foreseen. A riding accident leaves Mr Darcy at the mercy of the very family he had been at such pains to avoid. A summer storm strands him at the parsonage with the woman who has just refused his hand. A locked garden shed becomes the unlikely scene of an even more unlikely conversation. A fortnight at a country house party offers a second chance at the words he wishes he had never spoken.

From quiet reconciliations over a cooling cup of tea to comic disasters involving mushrooms of an inadvisable variety, from a Lydia Bennet at her most reformable to a Darcy who is anything but a gentleman of leisure, The Perils of Proximity answers one irresistible question: what happens for Darcy and Elizabeth when there is nothing left to do but fall in love?

Certain Evils by Amy D’Orazio
Building Bridges by Ali Scott
Tempest by Frances Reynolds
A Tax on His Forbearance by Jan Ashton
A Just and Tender Spirit by Julie Cooper
Seven Days in Northamptonshire by Lucy Marin
Clutter and Concealment by Nan Harrison
Not in Vain by Mary Smythe