A delightful romp of a novel provides a charming, witty and fanciful period background to the life of Jane Austen. Observed and written as a ‘secret diary’ by Jane’s cousin and companion Jenny, the book charts the ups and downs of the girls’ love affairs, the dramas of balls and sociable outing in fashionable Bath as well as Jane’s own accounts which show how she might make use of all this material in her future classic novels.
Jane wants to meet a hero worthy of her extraordinary imagination: a gentleman who is dashing and daring and handsome and brave; who can dance like a viscount and duel like a king. Jane and Jenny are whiling away the season in Bath and there are plenty of dances, rumours and scandals to entertain them. But a good reputation, once lost, is gone forever; and Jane is in danger of becoming the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons...
Cora Harrison worked as a headteacher before she decided to write her first novel. She has since published twenty-six children’s novels. Cora lives on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland.
