Heffers presents: Miss Austen' - an evening with Gill Hornby

In some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage at Kintbury, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets that Cassandra Austen is desperate should not be revealed. Should she act to protect her sister Jane's reputation? Or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?

 

Fans of Jane Austen will delight in Gill Hornby's new book ‘Miss Austen’. Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, it's a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen which ingeniously imagines what Jane’s sister Cassandra Austen’s own life might have been like, both before and after Jane's untimely death. Join Gill at Heffers as she tells us all about the book and the stories behind her story.