Enamoured

A Pride and Prejudice Variation

De: Jessie Lewis

Narrado por: Arthur Rowan

You are as handsome as any of them, Mr Bingley might like you the best of the party
ELIZABETH BENNET THINKS HER FATHER is worrying over nothing when he sends her from Longbourn to London to keep an eye on her mother, who has been staying with a friend. But Mrs Bennet proves to be uncommonly elusive. Everywhere Elizabeth looks, she finds Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley instead.

MR DARCY HAS BEEN TRYING IN VAIN to locate his friend Charles Bingley, but after repeatedly running into Miss Elizabeth Bennet, it dawns on him that their searches are related. As their pursuit intensifies, and as Darcy and Elizabeth continue to be thrown together in company, their accidental meetings begin to attract notice. Before they know it, they have become the Darlings of the Season.

LONDON SOCIETY HAS GROWN COMPLETELY ENAMOURED of its favourite new couple; alas Darcy and Elizabeth are fighting to contain the shocking truth of their presumed attachment, with each convinced that the other could never love them. They both must find a way to disentangle themselves from an imagined romance without creating a scandal of their own—or hope that love finds a way to conquer more than just the haut ton.

Enamoured is a clean, humorous Pride and Prejudice variation with low angst. The tropes include forced engagement, mistaken identity, and second chances.

©2025 Jessie Lewis (P)2025 Quills & Quartos Publishing

Shocking beginning!

The audiobook is sooo good. And Arthur Rowan as Mr. Darcy is…well…swoon! And he and Jessie Lewis made me cry for Mrs. Bennet.

In Enamoured, Jessie Lewis figuratively knocked my socks off with a beginning I will never forget, and that jolted my senses like a lightning bolt through a quiet Meryton morning—not to mention Mr. Darcy’s! I’m sure he’s still blushing, even as I write.

Mr. Bennet sends a reluctant Elizabeth to London to track down her mother, who proves stubbornly hard to find, and when their paths finally cross, she defiantly refuses to go home. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy is on a mission to locate his elusive friend, Bingley—after he warns Jane away from him. ODC keep crossing paths—at balls, parks, drawing rooms, and everywhere in between. The ton takes notice and they quickly become the latest on dit, even though both insist it is all a misunderstanding, and all refuse to believe them.

With many variations taking place in Meryton and surrounds, I enjoyed seeing this glimpse of Darcy contending with the demands of London society, and Elizabeth stepping into it for the first time—her eyes being opened to both the elegance and the undercurrents few speak of. The plot has plenty of surprises, but one thing I appreciated from the author was, once love is declared, she provides the reader with that passionate spark between Elizabeth and Darcy that I crave, and yet is too often overlooked in variations—and she does so without veering into explicit territory for those who don’t like it, showing it can be done. So brava! This story does touch on mature themes, though.

I only wished to see Mr. Bennet reckon with his part in it all—but the ending still delivers, with Elizabeth and Darcy finding their way on their own terms.