It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a son and heir, so begins Emma Tennant's sequel to the novel that Jane Austen preferred to all her others Pemberley is Mr Darcy's splendid Derbyshire home, where he and his wife, nee Bennett, entertain their relatives for Christmas, but a year of marriage has brought no sign of an heir Darcy's pride and Eliza's prejudice are once more provoked, this time by the jealous tales of Caroline Bingley