The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet

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Pub Date Apr 29 2025 | Archive Date May 29 2025

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Description

Jane Austen meets Bridgerton in this sapphic romance between Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennet that begins four years after the end of Pride and Prejudice.

When Mr. Collins dies after just four years of marriage, Charlotte is lost. While not exactly heartbroken, she will soon have to quit the parsonage that has become her home. In desperate need of support, she writes to her best friend, Lizzie. Unable to leave Pemberley, Lizzie sends her sister Mary Bennet in her stead.

To Charlotte’s surprise, Mary Bennet is nothing like she remembers. Mary’s discovery of academia and her interest in botany (as well as getting out from under her mother’s thumb) have caused her to flourish. Before long, Charlotte is enraptured, and with each stolen glance and whispered secret, their friendship quickly blossoms into something achingly real.

But when her time at the parsonage begins to dwindle and a potential suitor appears, Charlotte must make a choice—the safety and security of another husband, or a passionate life with Mary outside the confines of the ton’s expectations.
Jane Austen meets Bridgerton in this sapphic romance between Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennet that begins four years after the end of Pride and Prejudice.

When Mr. Collins dies after just four years...

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ISBN 9781335928269
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PAGES 320

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For lovers of Pride & Prejudice, Anne Lister, The Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence, Bridgerton, The Duke’s Sister & I, and on…Mary Bennet and Charlotte Lucas get their own delicious queer true love story.
I adored this book. I was sent the copy yesterday and devoured it immediately - all of the beautiful flower language references and the way Charlotte used that to share her feelings for Mary - the sweet acceptance of those around them, the complications of grief and widowhood and propriety. I was drawn in by the longing, yearning, and simple want of it all - how Charlotte let herself truly want something and have it - in this case, Mary’s self and love.
This book made my heart sing. And the ending was just SO exquisitely happy.

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