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Miss Austen

By: Gill Hornby
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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The Sunday Times best-seller, and set to be a major TV drama.

A wonderfully original, emotionally complex 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.

1840: 23 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 is desperate should not 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.

©2020 Gill Hornby (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"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)

"The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night." (STYLIST)

"So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it." (Claire Tomalin)

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Superb!

A wonderful and moving book, beautifully narrated by Juliet Stevenson. A must for all Janeites and lovers of good writing and storytelling. Superb. Highly recommended.

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