Writing Jane Austen, Elizabeth Aston
Writing Jane Austen, Elizabeth Aston
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Writing Jane Austen

Author: Elizabeth Aston

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/13/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed and award-winning—but hardly bestselling—author Georgina Jackson can’t get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain it’s bad news. Shockingly, she’s offered a commission to complete a newly discovered unfinished manuscript by a major nineteenth-century author. Skeptical at first about her ability to complete the manuscript, Georgina is horrified to learn that the author in question is Jane Austen.Torn between pushing through or fleeing home to America, Georgina relies on the support of her banker-turned-science-student roommate, Henry, and his quirky teenage sister, Maud—a serious Janeite. With a sudden financial crisis looming, the only way Georgina can get by is to sign the hugely lucrative contract and finish the book.

About Elizabeth Aston

Elizabeth Aston is a passionate Jane Austen fan who studied with Austen biographer Lord David Cecil at Oxford. The author of numerous novels, she lives in Malta and Italy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janelle on June 07, 2010

I’ve been sitting here for the last fifteen minutes trying to find a pretty & poetic way of saying: I didn’t like it. At. ALL. Aston’s Writing Jane Austen has the potential to be a lovely tribute to the subject and her work, but with undeveloped characters, rushed plotlines and lack of conflict, this......more

Goodreads review by Autumn on September 04, 2012

In Writing Jane Austen, the protagonist has a plum, yet quite terrifying, project dropped into her lap: a fragment of a heretofor unknown Jane Austen novel has been discovered, and she has been handpicked to complete the manuscript. I find myself at a loss as to how to review this book. I almost quit......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on September 28, 2018

This novel about an author asked to complete a newly discovered Jane Austen work sounded like it could be fun - and it was at times. However, the balance of navel-gazing to actual writing/Jane Austen/anything but the heroine whining was not favorable throughout the first two-thirds of the book. Geor......more

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