Miss Austen

<p><strong>Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?</strong><br /><br /><strong>1840</strong>: 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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?<br /><br /><strong>Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, <em>Miss Austen</em> is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.</strong></p>