Hornby, Gill

Miss Austen: the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer

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ISBN 13:: 9781787462830
author:: Hornby, Gill
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Arrow Books Ltd
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 416
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 centimeters (0.2
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, Literary, Fiction & Literature,
Condition:: New
Availability:: Item usually sent within 7 working days

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Miss Austen is a deeply imagined and moving novel about the complex lives of two sisters, Cassandra and Jane Austen. Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, this book pieces together buried truths about Jane's history and her own.

When Cassandra returns to the village of Kintbury, she discovers a cache of family letters that hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As she recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, 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?

This wonderfully original novel celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood, and virtues such as kindness and loyalty, set against the precarious backdrop of a society where women's positions are fragile and uncertain.

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