{"product_id":"miss-austen-the-1-bestseller-and-one-of-the-best-novels-of-the-year-according-to-the-times-and-observer-1","title":"Gill Hornby: Miss Austen [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novel, set to be a major TV drama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' \u003cb\u003eCLAIRE TOMALIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThroughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e1840\u003c\/b\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, \u003ci\u003eMiss Austen\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTYLIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' \u003cb\u003eKAREN JOY FOWLER, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Bookclub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRTE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY MIRROR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Austen\u003c\/i\u003e 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.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e Audio Book of the Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, \u003ci\u003eMiss Austen\u003c\/i\u003e transported me from page one. A gift to all Austen lovers.' \u003cb\u003eLARA PRESCOTT, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets We Kept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003eDEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of \u003ci\u003eJane Austen's Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003eARTEMIS COOPER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delightful... 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