![]() ![]() ![]() The important thing to remember is that it is NOT Jane Austen you are reading, nor is the author attempting to fool you into thinking she is. Yes, this "other lady" takes liberties with Austen's characters, but who's to know how she would have finished the story if given time. ![]() Sanditon may be the best of all the Austen novel completions and sequels (there are over 80 at present.) The story moves smoothly from the middle of chapter 11, where Austen left Charlotte to the mercy of Lady Denham, through its sometimes bizarre (but always entertaining) plot twists to a final, satisfying conclusion. ![]() Out of print for over 20 years, this gem is finally available in paperback form. It was completed in 1975 by "Another Lady" who, though a previously published author herself, chose to follow Jane's own example of anonymity. One of these, only 11 chapters long, was nicknamed Sanditon. Jane Austen died in 1817, leaving two unfinished novels. But can the levelheaded Charlotte herself resist the attractions of the heart?"* A heroine whose clear-sighted common sense is often at war with romance, Charlotte cannot help observing around her both folly and passion in many guises. "When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, from the local reigning dowager Lady Denham and her impoverished ward Clara, to the handsome, feckless Sidney Parker and his amusing, if hypochondriacal, sisters. ![]()
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