Book
Description
Whoever
looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?
England,
1840. Two decades after the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen
returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her family friends, the
Fowles. In a dusty corner of the vicarage, there is a cache of Jane’s letters
that Cassandra is desperate to find. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome
housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the
secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself.
Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or
commit her sister’s legacy to the flames?
Moving
back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra’s vibrant memories of her
years with Jane, interwoven with Jane’s brilliantly reimagined lost letters,
Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane’s life.
With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally
gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen
heroine.
