The Forgotten Sister

Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice

By: Jennifer Paynter

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

"Nobody turned my head with compliments. Nobody asked me to dance." An elegant accompaniment to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer Paynter’s The Forgotten Sister plucks the neglected Mary from obscurity and reveals her hopes and fears. Mary Bennet spends much of her time apart from her family, closeted in her room reading or playing her music, studying hard for accomplishments. As her four sisters become absorbed in their own romantic dramas, Mary stands apart, believing herself "not pretty enough" to dance with. She watches while Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley - and Mr. Wickham - waltz into her sisters’ lives, judging all three gentlemen quite dispassionately (and as it turns out, accurately). But Mary may not be quite so clear-sighted when she finally falls in love herself. She will first have to overcome her own brand of "pride and prejudice."

©2012, 2014 Jennifer Paynter (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved

Good listen, very interesting.

Would you listen to The Forgotten Sister again? Why?

Pride and Prejudice is one of favorite books amd I've watched the movie about 100 times. Seeing things from a different perspective was great. The story of how things turned out for everyone was very interesting and intriguing. The one damper on the whole thing was the constant mispronunciation of piano forte.

What three words best describe Justine Eyre’s performance?

Her accent

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

That was not possible but I did find extra time to listen.

not worth the time

I had hopes of this book; Pride and Prejudice from a new point of view. Instead it was a sad telling of an unwanted daughter undergoing a deep depression and a love interest from "the lower orders." It came up with heavy handed explanations for her moralizing (in one case she was drunk!), and a last chapter that I found tedious in the extreme. The narration was adequate. Don't waste your credit.

Really enjoyed

This is an enjoyable book. It follows Mary Bennett, the third child of Jane Austen's beloved story, Pride and Prejudice. In this tome u see the events of the original novel as seen thru the eyes of Mary. Plus you see what happens to her. I found her story engrossing and hard to put down. This novel enhances the original and let's you see all the original characters in a new and not always flattering light. I have a new found respect for Pride and Prejudice, and see The Forgotten Sister as a wonderful addition to world created by Jane Austen.

Piano forte'!

Lovely story, and a delightful performance. Well written characterizations and the storyline of persons on the outside of ODC romance.
Narrator has excellent voice and changes for all characters.
The only problem was the repeated pronouncing of piano forte' as piano fort., unfortunate in a story about Mary Bennett.

Sanctimonious and Pretentious

This story does Mary Bennett no justice. She comes across as sanctimonious and pretentious with her endless biblical and literary quotations made worse by the prissy, nasal accent of the narrator. The story, while unlikely, is interesting enough to enable listening to the end, however none of the Bennetts are portrayed as particularly likable.