In early 1817 Jane Austen began writing a story called ‘
Sanditon’. She was only able to work on it for around 7 weeks before her health deteriorated to such an extent that she had to abandon it. She died around 4 months later, bequeathing the unfinished manuscript to her neice, Anna Austen Lefroy. There are a number of continuations of the book (there’s a list
here) but the reason I chose to read this one, written in 1975, was because I saw a recommendation on a blog (if I recall correctly, it was
The Bookrat) saying that they hadn’t noticed the join between Austen’s words and the completion. I thought I’d go into it without knowing where the join took place either.
