I picked up Syrie James' Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen last Sunday at Costco and finished it 5 days later. From the backcover: What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered after hundreds of years? What if those pages revealed the untold story of a life-changing love affair?
It was a quick and easy read of Austen's fictional romance interwoven with the writing of Sense and Sensibility. I'm by no means a hard-core Janeite, but James does a good job of creating characters in Austen's society that supposedly inspire many of those that come to life in her books, including a Mr. Morton that is so clearly the pompous Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice.
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That sounds like a good book!
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