The Sunday Times bestselling novel set to be a major TV drama series.You cant help feeling that Jane would have approved. OBSERVERSo good so intelligent so clever so entertaining I adored it. CLAIRE TOMALINThroughout her lifetime Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all1840 twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her familys friends the Fowles.She knows that in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed.As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister she pieces together buried truths about Janes history and her own. And she faces a stark choice should she act to protect Janes reputation or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterityBased on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night STYLISTCelebrates unexamined lives sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty SUNDAY TIMESThis is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel KAREN JOY FOWLER author of The Jane Austen BookclubIts a delight one of those that you dont want to end. RTEA charming novel SUNDAY MIRRORHornby brings to life the Austen family using the known to speculate on what might have been. THE TIMES Audio Book of the WeekExtraordinary and heartwrenching. LARA PRESCOTT author of The Secrets We KeptGill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austens own life might have been like. DEIRDRE LE FAYE editor of Jane Austens LettersTender and touching DAILY MAILUtterly absorbing. ARTEMIS COOPERDelightful. SUE RYAN founder of Henley Lit Fest