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“Mister Darcy’s Dogs” by Barbara Silkstone

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Mr-Darcy's-Dogs-Book-Cover “Mister Darcy’s Dogs” by Barbara Silkstone is a lovely homage to Jane Austen’s work and characters. It uses the best elements of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and transfers them into a contemporary London, a world of lingering sense of class society, dog shows, fox hunting and dress shopping.  This is Silkstone and Austen at their best, a great combination of two talents, written with wit, humour and charm.
At the heart is the project to get Mr Darcy’s dogs to like his love interest, gossip columnist Caroline Bingley, a difficult undertaking for dog psychologist Lizzie Bennet since the dogs seem good judges of character. We are served great adaptations of the original characters.
The plot uses some elements of the original story but has enough new stuff added to make it an interesting and surprising read, while giving us what we came for: chemistry, back and forth between the couple…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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