Two Inches of Ivory

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>A vivid imagining of the lives of JANE AUSTEN and her family told in a novel</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>One snowy Christmas Mrs Austen gives birth to her seventh child Jane. From birth to untimely death Jane's path to becoming a successful novelist is constantly choked by unpredictable circumstances.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>War with Napoleonic France the press of poverty fashionable Regency the Romantic urge - all shape the Austens' lives and fuel Jane's imagination. Questions of love feelings freedom for women are continually thrown up while she strives to balance family duties with the ups and downs of publishing fortunes</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>A fictional narrative carefully woven from letters memoirs biographies brings to life the world of Jane Austen in its most intimate expression</strong></p><p></p>