Goodbye Wickham Book 2 of Oddball Pride and Prejudice Variations by Violet King. ★★★★☆

As a young and foolish teenager, Lydia Bennet had thought it a lark to run off with George Wickham. Imagining a gay whirl of dancing and Society, as the wife of an officer. 

Reality should have dawned on her, when Wickham had to be bribed to marry her.

Now, after four years of marriage to a violent, dissolute blackguard, her greatest desire is widowhood! 

She writes in desperation to her sister, Kitty. 

On arrival in Newcastle, Kitty is shocked to find Lydia living in squalor, with her two young daughters. Marks of Wickham's physical and emotional abuse are seen on all the Wickham females.

The only answer is to engineer the death of Wickham, without getting caught.

Easier said than done with a man who seems to have the luck of the devil!

We follow Lydia and Kitty in their failed attempts, but assistance may be found in a handsome and kindly officer!

I enjoyed this book, but I'm not sure that I'd call it a comedy. Black humour perhaps.

Well worth reading.

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