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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Gill Hornby
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
The Sunday Times bestselling novel, soon to be a major series on BBC One and BBC iPlayer starring Keeley Hawes in 2025.
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.
As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?
Based 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.
'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' Observer
'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' Claire Tomalin
'Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' Sunday Times
© Gill Hornby 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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- SparklesandLace
- 02-07-2022
Loved it
I loved every second of this book! The family tree was a bit confusing at times but that didn’t take away from it.
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- Loretta.
- 03-07-2022
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
what an interesting Family always Traveling & They have compasion for everyone ..Thank you everyone
I'll catch you all at the Hamptons
lol 💜💜💜💜
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- Eden
- 22-07-2022
delightful
excellent narrator, makes the story a treat for Austen lovers and those who enjoy a well researched historical drama
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-2020
A must for lovers of Jane Austen
Highly recommend this book if you enjoy Jane Austen's work. it's a treat. A family tree would help!
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- Anonymous User
- 04-08-2022
Satisfied lover of all things Jane Austen
Very well written and narrated. It brought into sharp focus how precious and truly satisfying relationships between women can be, and most especially, between some sisters. I cannot imagine Jane Austen herself finding any fault with it. It really touched my heart, and it left me longing to be able to let my dear deceased sister what she’d meant to me.
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- John G. Tusler
- 21-07-2022
Miss Austen
A thoroughly enjoyable book for Jane Austen lovers. Highly recommended. Both content and narration were excellent.
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- Janet Reid
- 29-05-2023
Just delightful
Beautifully researched and written. How precious sisters - blood or not - are, to get through life.
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- julee latimer
- 07-07-2023
Wonderfully interesting
Such a fascinating view into thee lives of the Austen family.
Loved how the story revealed the influences that informed Jane Austens books.
Great narration.
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