Jane Austens love life long the subject of speculation is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like The Sidmouth Letters, bring together past and present with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, meanspirited and middleaged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny we await with dread a stranger to tea in an Engliish home we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss.

Binding: Paperback;160 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 254 g; Dimensions: 199 x 133 x 12

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