Shana Granderson A Lady
ASIN: B09BHQZCMR
Publisher: D&E Publishing
Pages: 204
** There is no fairy-godmother or magic in the story although there is some imagery we would expect to see in a Cinderella adjacent story – my apologies to those who thought there would be magic based on the title.** Mr. Thomas Bennet married the love of his life: Miss Fanny Gardiner. She gave him three children, Jane, Elizabeth and Tommy. 2 years after Tommy, Fanny was taken from her loving family birthing a second son, who was stillborn. Another branch of the Bennet family, cousins to the Longbourn Bennets, are titled, the Earl and Countess of Holder, who live in Staffordshire with their 5 children. The two families are extremely close and after Fanny dies Bennet’s cousins, at his request, keep and raise Tommy. In his grief Thomas Bennet doesn't think he can raise a 2-year-old at the same time as his two daughters. He also feels Tommy needs a mother figure in his life. Martha Bingley ...