"Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must." The Times"Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years . . . Thi
This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen's love life, while others introduce a trio of mean-spirited and middle-aged Kensi