Miss Austen

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NOW A MAJOR SERIES ON BBC ONE AND BBC iPLAYER STARRING KEELEY HAWES ‘A funny, warm and engaging novel’ Queen Camilla, Spectator ‘You can’t help feeling that Jane would have approved’ Observer’Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty’ Sunday Times’I read the book and laughed and sobbed’ Keeley Hawes___________Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family’s 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.