A #1 International Bestseller A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel.
Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.
--Karen Joy Fowler You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.
-- The Guardian For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn , a witty, wonderfully original novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? Engl.