NOW A MAJOR SERIES ON BBC ONE AND BBC iPLAYER STARRING KEELEY HAWES 'A funny warm and
engaging novel' Queen Camilla Spectator 'You can't help feeling that Jane would have
approved' Observer 'Celebrates unexamined lives sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and
loyalty ' Sunday Times 'I read the book and laughed and sobbed ' Keeley Hawes ___________
Throughout her lifetime Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did
Cassandra burn them all? 1840 : twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane
Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her family's friends the
Fowles. She knows that in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage there is a cache of
family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her
youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister she pieces together buried
truths about Jane's history and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to
protect Jane's reputation or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?
Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics Miss Austen is a
wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and
Jane Austen. ___________ 'So good so intelligent so clever so entertaining - I adored
it' CLAIRE TOMALIN 'The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night' STYLIST 'This
is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel' KAREN JOY FOWLER author of The Jane Austen
Bookclub 'It's a delight one of those that you don't want to end.' RTE 'A charming novel'
SUNDAY MIRROR ' Hornby brings to life the Austen family using the known to speculate on
what might have been' THE TIMES Audio Book of the Week 'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching'
LARA PRESCOTT author of The Secrets We Kept 'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra
Austen's own life might have been like.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE editor of Jane Austen's Letters
'Tender and touching' DAILY MAIL 'Utterly absorbing' ARTEMIS COOPER 'Delightful' SUE RYAN
founder of Henley Lit Fest ' Sparkling novel' DAILY MAIL ___________ Loved Miss Austen ?
Check out Gill Hornby's wonderful new novel The Elopement !
