Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances.
Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding and a TikTok Book
Club Pick. At twenty-seven Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.
Eight years earlier she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her
engagement to Frederick Wentworth a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What
happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed
novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath Persuasion is a brilliant
satire of vanity and pretension but above all it is a love story tinged with the heartache
of missed opportunities. For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher
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