The Sunday Times bestselling novel set to be a major BBC adaption starring Keeley Hawes in
2024. 'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' Observer'So good so intelligent
so clever so entertaining - I adored it.' Claire Tomalin 'Celebrates unexamined lives
sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' Sunday Times___________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.
___________'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
