Audio: Done for the best

 

By: Amy D'Orazio

Narrated by: Simon Alison

Series: The Engaged to Mr Darcy Series

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Release date: 06-27-25

Publisher: Quills & Quartos Publishing

Categories: Pride and Prejudice variation/audible

Someone asked me after I had the last book about the series name so I went back to book 1 to investigate ;) It seems Lizzy and Darcy gets engaged by circumstances and not by want, at least in the two I have read.

Here we open after the dreaded proposal scene. It is the day after and Lizzy is missing! Oh no! She has been bitten by an adder and is at death's door! But it gets even more eventful as Lizzy has memory loss and believes herself to be engaged to Darcy. Oh no, how will this end?

Obviously she will find out the truth and therein lies the drama of the book.

Love will prevail. And Wickham will show up to be an ass. And Lady Catherine is not a total nuisance.

I enjoyed it, I always do. Good narration too

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best. Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.

Darcy is shocked himself to realize that Elizabeth thinks she is engaged to him but his efforts to correct her misapprehension are thwarted by those around her who believe that to learn the truth will be detrimental to her recovery. As the days go by, Darcy and Elizabeth spend time together, reading and driving out around Kent, behaving as the lovers Darcy always dreamt they would be. To continue in the disguise, to forget the contentions and misunderstandings of their past proves an unbearable temptation.

When the worst happens and Elizabeth learns that not only did she refuse Darcy’s proposal, she hated him. What she learns seems completely incongruous with the man she has fallen in love with…and yet she simply does not know if she can forgive him for deceiving her.