Has all Austen’s wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twenty-first century zap
Ferdinand Mount
Few writers are as perspicacious or half as delightful as Hornby
Karen Joy Fowler
Gripping and moving and also so sharp and funny. I loved it!
Sabine Durrant
Turmoil ensues in this novel laced with scandal, elopement, gossip and family intrigue.
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About Gill Hornby
Gill Hornby is the author of The Hive and All Together Now, as well as The Story of Jane Austen, a biography of Austen for younger readers.
Her subsequent novels, Miss Austen and Godmersham Park were Sunday Times bestsellers, and Miss Austen is a four-part BBC adaptation starring Keely Hawes as Cassandra Austen. She is also the President of the Jane Austen Society.
She lives in West Berkshire with her husband and four children.