Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Miss Austen : the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer, EPUB eBook

Miss Austen : the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer EPUB

EPUB

Download - Immediately Available
Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

The Sunday Times bestselling novel, set to be a major TV drama series!

'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' Claire Tomalin
'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' Observer
'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
'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

Information

Other Formats

£2.99

Download - Immediately Available
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Delivered to your inbox

to transfer to your device

eBook Help

Is this the right eBook for
my device? How do I download
this eBook? See help and FAQs pages

Information