Miss Austen: A Novel of the Austen Sisters Audiobook

Quotes

• “Hornby’s gift to the world of Austen lovers is to return to Cassandra her rightful recognition as Jane’s most intimate and sustaining relationship, her greatest love.”

  — Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author

• “A romance that could have emerged from an Austen novel.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “You can’t help feeling that Jane would have approved.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “A delightfully astute reimagining of Jane Austen’s life that offers a shrewd take on Regency gender roles…with inspired touches of social comedy and a cast of appealing eccentrics.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• Unputdownable. So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining—I adored it.

  — Claire Tomalin, author of Jane Austen: A Life

• Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page one. A remarkable novel that is wholly original, deeply moving, and emotionally complex. A gift to all Austen lovers.

  — Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept

• Gill Hornby places Cassandra center stage and ingeniously imagines what her own life might have been like—an approach which casts a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.

  — Deirdre Le Faye, editor of Jane Austen’s Letters

• I’ve seldom enjoyed any Austen-centered book so much as this. Affecting and thought-provoking, it makes you think about both the Miss Austens in a new light.

  — Helena Kelly, author of Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

• A joy from the prologue to the author’s note. Rich in historical detail, family lore, and heart, Miss Austen will wow Janeites and enchant the uninitiated. Upon her sister’s death, Cassandra claimed that she was ‘the sun of my life.’ Now we know why.

  — Laurel Ann Nattress, editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It

• Fans of Austen will rejoice in the chance to enter this fictional world and spend time with the extended Austen family as Cassandra and Jane navigate the demands of her genius and temperament in the face of the many pressures single women have endured throughout history.

  — Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society