Persuasion

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony half hope...I have loved none but you.” The last completed novel by Jane Austen Persuasion is perhaps the most moving of her works. The plot follows 27yearold Anne Elliot one of Austen’s few adult heroines as she grapples with a life full of ups and downs. Happily engaged to the charming naval officer Frederick Wentworth Anne abruptly breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her illmeaning friends. A decision borne in contention and strife years later she's struck by regret of a love found and lost. Poignant and bittersweet Persuasion is one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.