All her life, Anne de Bourgh has been told what her health will allow, whom she will marry, and how little she may hope for.
Then Pemberley gives her what Rosings never has - air, room, and people who ask what she wants.
Away from her mother's watchful management, in a house where kindness is the ordinary currency, Anne begins to recover: first in body, and then, more dangerously, in spirit. She walks a little farther each day. She speaks a little more of her own mind. And she begins to face the question no one has ever permitted her to ask - what life would I choose, if the choice were truly my own?
It is a gentle, formidable thing, a woman deciding to bloom. And Anne is discovering she has roots deeper than anyone at Rosings ever guessed.
A sweet, closed-door Pride and Prejudice sequel - for readers who love a quiet heroine coming into her own · Austen's world beyond the Bennets * gentle, character-first storytelling * found family at Pemberley * and the deep satisfaction of a life chosen on purpose.
A Proper Bloom is Book 2 of The Smaller Proofs Collection, and follows Anne de Bourgh's story - Book 1, By Smaller Proofs, follows Elizabeth and Darcy's story. Gentle throughout, no scandal, no spice.
