Lesley Rose: 3 books

“None will want a woman as spirited as you.” Elizabeth first met the young woman named Georgiana and her dreadful brother while in Meryton. While trying to help the lost Georgiana, her brother treated Elizabeth as though she were a common criminal. Despite this, she finds it difficult keeping...

“When it comes to the heart, all logic is lost.” Elizabeth sacrificed everything. She married Mr. Collins after the death of her father as an attempt to keep Longbourn for her family, but at a terrible cost. She gave up so much more than her last name once the gold band was placed upon...

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...