
Gill Hornby
Book for an eventGill Hornby is the author of the novels The Hive and All Together Now, as well as The Story of Jane Austen, a biography of Austen for young readers. She lives in Kintbury, Berkshire, with her husband and their four children.
Books by Gill Hornby
A wonderfully original, emotionally complex reading-group novel. Set in 1804, the novel follows Anne Sharp, a governess who became close to Jane Austen and her family, and the challenging 'upstairs downstairs' dynamic she found herself enmeshed in
A wonderfully original, emotionally complex 'reading-group' novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen - an act of destruction that has troubled academics for centuries.
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Delve into the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen with your reading group.