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Ladies of the House

Lauren Edmondson
Chapters (59)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Praise
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. January
  7. One
  8. Two
  9. Three
  10. Four
  11. Five
  12. February
  13. Six
  14. Seven
  15. Eight
  16. Nine
  17. Ten
  18. Eleven
  19. Twelve
  20. March
  21. Thirteen
  22. Fourteen
  23. Fifteen
  24. Sixteen
  25. April
  26. Seventeen
  27. Eighteen
  28. Nineteen
  29. Twenty
  30. Twenty-One
  31. Twenty-Two
  32. Twenty-Three
  33. Twenty-Four
  34. Twenty-Five
  35. May
  36. Twenty-Six
  37. Twenty-Seven
  38. Twenty-Eight
  39. Twenty-Nine
  40. Thirty
  41. Thirty-One
  42. June
  43. Thirty-Two
  44. Thirty-Three
  45. Thirty-Four
  46. Thirty-Five
  47. Thirty-Six
  48. Thirty-Seven
  49. Thirty-Eight
  50. Thirty-Nine
  51. Forty
  52. July
  53. Forty-One
  54. Epilogue
  55. Acknowledgments
  56. Author’s Note
  57. Ladies of the House - Reader’s Guide
  58. Questions For Discussion
  59. Excerpt

Cover

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About the Author

Lauren Edmondson has a BA from Williams College and an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and daughter. Ladies of the House is her first novel. Find her on Instagram, @mrslaurenedmondson

Praise

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LADIES OF THE HOUSE

“I was absolutely charmed by Ladies of the House, a modern retelling of Sense and Sensibility, and a delightful and insightful exploration into finding your own voice, discovering your best self and falling in love, in its many iterations. What a wonderful debut.”

—ALLISON WINN SCOTCH, bestselling author of Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“A warm, witty, and whip-smart modern spin on Sense and Sensibility, Ladies of the House pulled me in on page one and didn’t let me go until the last, satisfying scene. Edmondson’s talent shines in her expertly crafted story of two sisters using their brains and hearts to break free of their father’s legacy and voice their desires, despite the sexist double standards that would keep them quiet. A sensational debut.”

—AMY MASON DOAN, author of The Summer List and Lady Sunshine

“A fun and clever take on Sense and Sensibility, Ladies of the House is replete with witty banter and keen social commentary. Like any good modernization, it also stands alone as a stellar novel, one that celebrates sisterhood and the way women can step out of flawed men’s shadows. I delighted in every page of this fast-paced, redemptive novel.”

—AMY MEYERSON, bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects

Dedication

For Jane and Jim Edmondson

Epigraph

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

—Sense and Sensibility

January

January

One

The brick went through the window on P Street on what would’ve been my father’s sixty-fifth birthday.

Cricket had scheduled his private memorial service for that morning. He’d been gone for three months already, but she had been insistent we wait. She thought it poetic, for my father was big on birthdays. To be more precise, he loved his birthday, while routinely forgetting those of his immediate family.