- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804942802
- Length: 400 pages
- Price: £9.99
Ferdinand MountHas all Austen’s wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twenty-first century zap
Karen Joy FowlerFew writers are as perspicacious or half as delightful as Hornby
Sabine DurrantGripping and moving and also so sharp and funny. I loved it!
The BooksellerTurmoil ensues in this novel laced with scandal, elopement, gossip and family intrigue.
RED MagazineHas all the wit and wisdom of a Jane Austen novel
Woman & HomeA captivating return to the world of the Austens
Mail on SundayJoyous . . . captured with apt perspicacity and keen wit
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday TimesA richly imagined family saga, love story and social comedy in which Hornby displays a wonderful eye for people’s blind spots
About Gill Hornby
Gill Hornby is the author of The Hive and All Together Now, as well as The Story of Jane Austen, a biography of Austen for younger readers.
Her subsequent novels, Miss Austen and Godmersham Park were Sunday Times bestsellers, and Miss Austen is a four-part BBC adaptation starring Keely Hawes as Cassandra Austen. She is also the President of the Jane Austen Society.
She lives in West Berkshire with her husband and four children.
Her subsequent novels, Miss Austen and Godmersham Park were Sunday Times bestsellers, and Miss Austen is a four-part BBC adaptation starring Keely Hawes as Cassandra Austen. She is also the President of the Jane Austen Society.
She lives in West Berkshire with her husband and four children.
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