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Melinda Taub

Biography

Melinda Taub

Melinda Taub is an Emmy- and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer. The former head writer and executive producer of "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," she is the author of STILL STAR-CROSSED, a young adult novel that was adapted for television by Shondaland, and the adult novel THE SCANDALOUS CONFESSIONS OF LYDIA BENETT, WITCH. (She also wrote that thing about the Baroness in The Sound of Music that your aunt likes.) She lives in Brooklyn.

Melinda Taub

Books by Melinda Taub

by Melinda Taub - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

In this exuberant retelling of Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story. Some facts are well known: Mrs. Bennet suffers from her nerves, Mr. Bennet suffers from Mrs. Bennet, and all five daughters suffer from an estate that is entailed only to male heirs. But Lydia also suffers from entirely different concerns. Her best-loved sister, Kitty, is really a barn cat. Wickham is every bit as wicked as the world believes him to be, but what else would one expect from a demon? And if Mr. Darcy is uptight about etiquette, that’s nothing compared to his feelings about magic. Most of all, Lydia has yet to learn that for a witch, promises have power.