Miss Austen by Gill Hornby Paperback Book 9781787462830

The Sunday Times bestselling novel set to be a major TV drama seriesYou cant help feeling that Jane would have approved OBSERVERSo good so intelligent so clever so entertaining I adored it CLAIRE TOMALINThroughout her lifetime Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister But why did Cassandra burn them all1840 twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her familys friends the FowlesShe 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 revealedAs Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister she pieces together buried truths about Janes history and her own And she faces a stark choice should she act to protect Janes reputation or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterityBased 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 AustenThe perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night STYLISTCelebrates...