A powerful, fictionalized account of how love, death and betrayal shaped the life of novelist Jane Austen. Young Jane - or Jenny, as she was known - is a girl with a head full of questions that no one seems able to answer. But the sudden arrival of her worldly-wise cousin, Eliza, to the parsonage in rural Hampshire brings Jenny some of the answers she is seeking and provides the germ of an idea... Building on the close relationship between Jane and her older sister, Cassandra, and drawing on characters and incidents from such masterpieces as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Cassandra's Sister creates a moving portrait of one of the world's greatest and best-loved writers.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 14+ years.

This book was published 2013 by Walker Books Ltd .

Veronica Bennett graduated from University College, Cardiff. She was an English lecturer for several years before becoming a successfully published children's author. She lives in Middlesex.