'... as the likelihood of my being joined by a brother diminished with each ensuing year [my mother] consoled herself by arranging, in her own mind at least, a match between her daughter and her sister's only son - between myself and my cousin, Fitzwilliam Darcy.
'Fitzwilliam Darcy - known in the family circle as William. There, I have done it. I have forced my pen to write his name.'
Confined by ill health at Rosings Park and subject to the whims of her domineering mother Lady Catherine, Anne de Bourgh recalls the major events of her life, up to and including those so familiar to readers of 'Pride and Prejudice'. Unsurprisingly, she presents the courtship of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from a very different perspective ...