Whatever came of Lydia Bennet after her two older sisters found their happy endings in Jane Austen’s social satire? Here is one imagined outcome for the youngest and arguably most rock’n’roll of the five siblings, whose fate is sealed after she runs off with the rakish cad, George Wickham (played by Johnny Flynn).
Sarah Page’s drama joins the literary trend for Austenian spin-offs in this Audible Originals production, which starts where Austen left off. Having married, she is “banished” she tells us in an intimate, confessional and somewhat despairing tone, to “somewhere called the North,” near Newcastle, to be near Wickham’s garrison.
