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Miss Austen: the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer by Gill Hornby (Paperback, 2021)
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A wonderfully original, emotionally complex 'reading-group' novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen - an act of destruction that has troubled academics for centuries. The Sunday Times bestselling novel, set to be a major TV drama ________________________ 'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER 'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' CLAIRE TOMALIN ________________________ Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840- twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice- should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. ________________________ 'The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night' STYLIST 'Without romanticising its period setting or underplaying the precariousness of any woman's position in this society, it celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub 'It won't surprise me if this is one of the books of the year. It's a delight, one of those that you don't want to end.' RTE 'A charming novel... capturing the spirit of the brilliant sardonic Jane, and reminding the reader of how brutal life was for women in Austen's era, it's an ingenious and affecting embroidery on the fact of the author's life.' SUNDAY MIRROR 'Miss Austen is ingenious ... With flashbacks and wonderful domestic detail, Hornby brings to life the Austen family, using the known to speculate on what might have been.' THE TIMES Audio Book of the Week 'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page one. A gift to all Austen lovers.' LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept 'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen's own life might have been like, both before and after Jane's untimely death, casting a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen's Letters 'Tender and touching ... Hornby deftly describes the psychological toll that such uncertainly took on Jane, and movingly celebrates the fortitude of Cassandra whose greatest love was her sister' DAILY MAIL 'Utterly absorbing. The lives of the Austen sisters are recreated with a brilliant sureness of touch that can only be achieved by deep study of the period.' ARTEMIS COOPER 'Delightful... It reads just like an Austen novel so you get the double whammy of being a new book with an old feel' SUE RYAN, founder of Henley Lit FestProduct Identifiers
PublisherCornerstone
ISBN-139781787462830
eBay Product ID (ePID)21046698203
Product Key Features
Book TitleMiss Austen: the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer
AuthorGill Hornby
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLove, Books
Publication Year2021
GenreHistorical
Number of Pages416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight293g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGill Hornby
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 10 Dec, 2023
Perfect
An excellent read which holds the readers interests. Gives insight to life as it was in mid/late 18th early 19th century.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Mar, 2025
Interesting book and enjoyable read ; sh...
Interesting book and enjoyable read ; sheds new light on Jane’s sister.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 15 Nov, 2024
An interesting read.
Interesting fictional book about Jane Austin’s sister and her relationship with JaneVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Apr, 2025
Light read, interesting Austen connectio...
Light read, interesting Austen connection. Imaginative storyVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 09 Feb, 2025
Easy to , and very absorbing....
Easy to , and very absorbing.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
