Miss Austen : A Novel of the Austen Sisters (CD-Audio)

from clue

Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, set during the mid 1800s, takes place twenty years after Jane Austen's death and follows her sister Cassandra, the only sister still living, as she hunts for personal letters Jane had written to a close friend. Her purpose in finding the letters is to destroy them to p...

from nancyadair

For whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?~from Miss Austen by Gill Hornby I am old. I am older than my mother and her brothers and two grandfathers were when they died. I am two aunts away from being the eldest on my mother's side of the family, and an aunt and...

from LadyoftheLodge

“Miss Austen” presents readers with a new look at what the relationship between Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra might have been like, using an Austen-like writing style. Cassandra's future looks rosy, but unexpected tragedy reduces her life to one of devotion to her family, particularly her ...