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A #1 International Bestseller

A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts. Karen Joy Fowler

You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved. The Guardian

For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, wonderfully original novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.

Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?

England, 1840. Two decades after the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her family friends, the Fowles. In a dusty corner of the vicarage, there is a cache of Jane's letters that Cassandra is desperate to find. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most priva

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      Publisher: Flatiron Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/16/2021 12:03:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781250252210, 978-1250252210
      ISBN10: 1250252210
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A #1 International Bestseller

      A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.       Karen Joy Fowler

      You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved. The Guardian

      For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, wonderfully original novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.

      Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?

      England, 1840. Two decades after the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her family friends, the Fowles. In a dusty corner of the vicarage, there is a cache of Jane's letters that Cassandra is desperate to find. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most priva

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