Miss Austen
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Why did Cassandra Austen burn her sister Jane's letters?
In this beautifully written, entertaining, historical novel, Cassandra returns to Kintbury to find the family letters that she believes should remain hidden. 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 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.
'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it' Claire Tomalin
'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved' Observer
'Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' Sunday Times
Product Code: TLM_45164 / 45164
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Brand: Penguin
Publisher: Penguin
Format: Paperback
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