
Miss Austen
A Novel of the Austen Sisters
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Gill Hornby
"In a cultured, melodious voice, narrator Juliet Stevenson becomes Miss Cassandra Austen, older sister to Jane and keeper of her memory." (AudioFile magazine, Earphones Award winner)
For fans of Jo Baker’s Longbourn, a witty, poignant audiobook about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?
England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone and unwed, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister’s reputation. Now in her 60s and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fiancé, in search of a trove of Jane’s letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister’s legacy to the flames?
Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra’s vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane’s brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane’s life. With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
"A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." (Karen Joy Fowler)
"A delightfully astute reimagining of Jane Austen’s life that offers a shrewd take on Regency gender roles.... Ms. Hornby enlivens the exhumation with inspired touches of social comedy and a cast of appealing eccentrics." (Wall Street Journal)
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Critic reviews
"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. This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." (Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves)
"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)
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Marvelous!
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Transporting Read!
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The author created a story worthy of Jane herself & the narrator made it come alive. After finishing the book I spent an afternoon reading about Jane & Cassandra on the Internet, the author did an amazing job of interpreting their lives.
A Must For Jane Austin Fans! I
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The narration could be better. You hear a lot of her mouth and breath sounds and the pauses can be long enough that I thought the audio had stalled. The voices she does for some characters are a little ridiculous. I was a little confused at one point because Mary Ann sounded very much like a man!
Good storytelling
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Lovely!
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Perfect imagining.
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Wonderful
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Everything it should be
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Beautiful
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Juliet Stevenson is perfection as always
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