Author: gillhornby

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 … 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…