Susan A Jane Austen Prequel, Alice McVeigh
Susan A Jane Austen Prequel, Alice McVeigh
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Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel

Author: Alice McVeigh

Narrator: Heather Tracy

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/22/2021

Synopsis

Susan: a Jane Austen Prequel, brilliantly captures Austen's own Lady Susan as a young lady of sixteen. As the BookLife review put it for Publishers Weekly: “McVeigh’s prose and plotting are pitch-perfect. Emma mingles with Pride and Prejudice in a delightful confrontation between the two books' worlds... This Austen-inspired novel echoes the master herself.”  Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson – pretty but poor, clever but capricious – has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London. At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But, at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins’ rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and “where nothing ever happens.”  Here Susan mischievously inspires the local squire to put on a play, with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen. What with the unexpected arrival of Frank Churchill, Alicia’s falling in love and a tumultuous elopement, rural Kent will never seem quite so safe again…    

Reviews

Goodreads review by InD'tale Magazine on February 05, 2022

Jane Austen fans rejoice! Behold, a regency romance told in the true style of Jane Austen herself! Read full review in the 2022 February issue of InD'tale Magazine.......more

Goodreads review by Rita on December 27, 2021

Review published at: [URL not allowed] 4,5 Stars Susan is a prequel of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan which allows the reader to get to know one of the most dislikeable characters Austen ever created and make him sympathize with her. In this book, we are introduced to young Susan Smit......more

Goodreads review by Elena on August 17, 2021

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Susan is a prequel of Lady Susan, a lesser known work of Jane Austen which I've always had a soft spot for, but it is also set five years after Pride and Prejudice and one year before Emma, and it features characters from these boo......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 30, 2021

As someone who has read all of Jane Austen's novels countless times, I was delighted to be able to review this book! The premise really struck me as entertaining, and I was not disappointed. I read this book way too quickly, but I just had to see what happened to Susan. I personally really enjoyed t......more

Goodreads review by Tammy on February 11, 2022

I confess I get so tired of Lizzy and Mr. Darcy it's always a genuine joy to find a non-P&P Austenation. So imagine my delight at finding a really, REALLY good author who kindly seems to wish to focus on Austen's more obscure characters. So obscure, in fact, that I had to do a quick re-read of Lady......more

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