Outmatched

A Mansfield Park/Sense & Sensibility Vagary

De: Jayne Bamber

Narrado por: Sarah Jane Rose

“It seems you must disoblige one of your children, Sir Thomas, and you must be the chooser of the pain inflicted. Your son disinherited, or your daughter married to an imbecile she cannot love."

When Sir Thomas Bertram returns home to Mansfield after his year in Antigua, he expects respite from his many troubles, in the bosom of his family. Instead, he is met with blackmail, collusion, and the ominous threat of scandal.

When Mrs. Margaret Dashwood takes her daughters from Norland to Barton Park, she carries with her a secret hope that they might someday return, though she is not yet ready to pay the price for it.

A mutual connection bent on manipulation and revenge sets the stage for heartbreak, intrigue, and plenty of surprises as the worlds of Sense & Sensibility and Mansfield Park collide.

Alliances shift along the way as familiar characters, bound by family ties, descend on Norland Park. There, everyone has their own agenda, and constant peril looms as a large party of relations all scheme to outwit, outmaneuver, and outmatch their opponents.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, Maria Bertram, Fanny Price, and Mary Crawford forge new friendships and alliances amidst the chaos of conspiracy, romance, redemption, and self-discovery, the likes of which Norland Park has never seen before.

©2020 Jayne Bamber (P)2021 Jayne Bamber

Touching Story

Interesting take on the characters. I especially liked Col. Brandon and Mary Crawford’s story. A deeply personal story that resonated with me. All of the characters had a troubling upbringing that colored their lives in a myriad of ways. Times change but human nature does not. They are trying to survive in a society that is so restrictive that no one can be who they truly are and so upside down that it guarantees to bring out the worst in everyone. I liked the story and the setting right of a number of situations that were sadly not well resolved in Jane Austen’s era. I thought the narrator did a serviceable job and not bad at all.

yikes

Exciting, I guess... For people who hate Edward Ferrars, love Willoughby, and would like to see Fanny Dashwood fall down a staircase...

The Narrator was weird. It was like she realized halfway in how ridiculous this story was and refused to do a second take, even when she slurred words or mispronounced a character's name.