It has a very interesting premise, which I won’t spoil for you, that I found to be plausible. It is a mystery (who is Richard Mansfield? and who can Sophie trust?), romance and historical fiction all rolled into one.
It is written in two different times – modern day and 1796 – one with Austen as the heroine and one with Sophie. In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie’s quest to uncover the truth-while choosing between two suitors-and a young Jane Austen’s touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice-and ultimately threaten Sophie’s life.
Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery featuring one of English literature’s most popular and beloved authors: Jane Austen.īook lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. I felt a bit of trepidation about reading this one – I have been burned before (sometimes I even wonder if we are reading the same novels to start with!), however, this one is a pleasant surprise.Ī thrilling literary mystery co-starring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale.Ĭharlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman’s Tale. If you are interested, you can watch this …īook Review: Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley I learnt new things – for example, Mr Austen might have died from malaria. In this case, Worsley uses each of Austen’s homes as her starting off point. I have read several biographies and you would think there would be nothing new to say, but each author interprets things differently or writes from a different perspective. This is (currently) my favourite biography – easy to read, insightful (and the cover is beautiful). A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy. Jane famously lived a ‘life without incident’, but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. It wasn’t all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. This new telling of the story of Jane’s life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.
I pre-ordered this and have been waiting and waiting and finally it arrived.
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