2.5 stars. I've read Little Women and Wuthering Heights, but never Pride and Prejudice -- and I really don't like that genre -- so maybe I'm just not the right audience for this book (I read it for my book club). I feel like if it had been published prior to Downton Abbey's premiere, it would have seemed like a fresher perspective, but as it is, it just seemed like a ripoff of DA (which I generally find to be better at providing an interesting juxtaposition between the lives of gentry of this era and that of their servants). If you're a fan of Jane Austen-type books, you might enjoy it more than I did.