JANE AUSTEN AT HOME

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE BBC S MISS AUSTEN NOW IN A STUNNING CELEBRATORY EDITION WITH NEW INTRODUCTION AND EPILOGUE THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY JANE AUSTEN LOVER Readers LOVE Jane Austen at Home A tour de force which should be in the reading list of anyone who has either read the books or watched the film adaptations This book is a delight I will return to Austen s novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines I devoured this Jane s story is told in vivid prose and a compassionate manner Where better to celebrate the 250th birthday of one of Britain s most beloved novelists than the very rooms from which she quietly changed the world In this bestselling biography Lucy Worsley travels from room to room house to house showing us how and why Jane Austen lived as she did examining the places and spaces that mattered to her It wasn t all country houses and ballrooms but a life that was often a painful struggle Jane famously lived a life without incident but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects but who in the