Jane and the Year Without a Summer, Stephanie Barron
Jane and the Year Without a Summer, Stephanie Barron
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Jane and the Year Without a Summer

Author: Stephanie Barron

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2022

Synopsis

May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript—about a
baronet’s daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain—cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits
earned from her last novel, Emma, and treat herself to a period of rest and reflection at the spa, in the company of her sister Cassandra.

Cheltenham Spa hardly turns out to be the relaxing sojourn Jane and Cassandra envisaged, however. It is immediately obvious that other boarders at the guest house where the Misses Austen are staying have come to Cheltenham with
stresses of their own—some of them deadly. But perhaps with Jane’s interference a terrible crime might be prevented.

Set during the Year Without a Summer, when the eruption of Mount Tambora in the South Pacific caused a volcanic winter that shrouded the entire planet for sixteen months, this fourteenth installment in Stephanie Barron’s critically
acclaimed series brings a forgotten moment of Regency history to life.

About Stephanie Barron

Stephanie Barron is a graduate
of Princeton and Stanford, where she studied history. A former intelligence
analyst for the CIA, Stephanie—who also writes under the name Francine Mathews—drew
on her experience in the field of espionage for such novels as The Alibi Club, which Publishers Weekly named as one of the
fifteen best novels of 2006, and for her critically acclaimed Jane Austen Mystery series, in which the intrepid and witty author of Pride and Prejudice details her secret detective career in Regency England. Barron lives and works in Denver.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on February 02, 2022

This is one of my favorite mystery series, so it made me so happy to see that Stephanie Barron had written the 14th book in the series. The last one was released more than five years ago in 2016 and had a Waterloo theme. This new book takes place in Cheltenham. Jane and Cassandra have gone to this b......more

Goodreads review by Mimi on October 18, 2021

Exceptionally researched and written, Jane and the Year Without a Summer is absolute perfection. Stephanie Barron expertly weaves fact and fiction, crafting a story that is authentically Austen in its elegance, charm, and wit. The characters and setting will enchant you, and the mystery will keep yo......more

Goodreads review by Maja on January 28, 2022

A PASSIVE SLEUTH IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Passive might just be the most abt description of this book that I can think of. I wasn't exactly expecting action. But I was expecting some sort of involvement and activity. I am torn between being disappointed and wanting more and the one hand and still being......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on November 12, 2022

The first thing to stand out to me when I started this book was the manner of narration and speaking- it so closely reflected Austen's own writing style, and it made me slow down and concentrate on each sentence rather than reading at my usual speed. I believe this enhanced my enjoyment and I felt i......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on February 12, 2022

4.5 stars Jane and the Year Without a Summer is my first introduction to Barron's Jane Austen Mysteries (though I've been eying the series for a while), but I definitely want to go back and start from the beginning now. Not because I felt lost by jumping in on book 14 (because I didn't at all) but be......more

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