Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen’s to her own niece, ‘aunt’ Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer – it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.
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Reviews
Wise and wonderfully funny
Wise, sharp, informative . . . the advice about writing is sane and splendid . . . what I liked best about this book was its comic but reverent approach to true acts of imagination, in writer or reader
Full of pithy reflections on Jane Austen's life and the society of the day . . . full of unsuspected wisdom
She writes with conviction and wit
Witty, convincing and spirited . . . both a fascinating study of Jane Austen and a novelist's enquiry into her own art