Although this is an Austen spin off it's not an attempt to write in the style or subject matter of Jane Austen. It features main Austen characters only peripherally and instead describes the other, unseen part of the household down in the servants' quarters. Instead of Austen's shiny clean view of upper class society, Baker describes the difficult, painful, hard life of the servants that Austen's characters are apparently oblivious to. There's an interesting story here and a side of life that isn't often described, just don't expect another Jane Austen style story.