You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved' Observer

'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it' Claire Tomalin

'Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' Sunday Times

'Sparkling novel' Daily Mail

'I read the book and laughed and sobbed' Keeley Hawes

'The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night' STYLIST

'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub

'It's a delight, one of those that you don't want to end.' RTE

'A charming novel' SUNDAY MIRROR

'Hornby brings to life the Austen family, using the known to speculate on what might have been' THE TIMES Audio Book of the Week

'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching' LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept

'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen's own life might have been like.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen's Letters

'Tender and touching' DAILY MAIL

'Utterly absorbing' ARTEMIS COOPER

'Delightful' SUE RYAN, founder of Henley Lit Fest