Miss Austen

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A funny, warm and engaging novelQueen Camilla, Spectator

You cant help feeling that Jane would have approvedObserver

Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyaltySunday Times
I read the book and laughed and sobbed Keeley Hawes
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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 familys 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 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 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.
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So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored itCLAIRE TOMALIN

The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark nightSTYLIST

This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novelKAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub

Its a delight, one of those that you dont want to end.RTE

A charming novelSUNDAY MIRROR

Hornby brings to life the Austen family, using the known to speculate on what might have beenTHE TIMES Audio Book of the Week

Extraordinary and heart-wrenchingLARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept

Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austens own life might have been like.DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austens Letters

Tender and touchingDAILY MAIL

Utterly absorbingARTEMIS COOPER

Delightful SUE RYAN, founder of Henley Lit Fest

Sparkling novelDAILY MAIL

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