A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a
major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of Austen's life
Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established
seaside resort and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and
amusement. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood who is transported by a chance accident
from her rural hometown to Sanditon where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a
small town determined to reinvent itself - and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney
Parker. This edition also includes the early epistolary novel Lady Susan and the delightful
fragment The Watsons.
