Gill Hornby The Elopement Paperback Book

Three women, two families, one forbidden marriage. Get ready to fall in love with the brandnew regency romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Godmersham Park and Miss Austen. A richly imagined family saga, love story and social comedy TimesGripping and moving and also so sharp and funny. I loved it! Sabine Durrant, bestselling author of Lie with MeHas all the wit and wisdom of a Jane Austen novel Red 1820. Mary Dorothea is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward, a man of strict principles and high moral values. But when Sir Edward marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Marys life is suddenly changed. Marys new stepmother, Fanny, comes from a large, happy and sociable family, and Fannys brothers are amusing, handsome and completely charming. One brother is particularly attentive and, as Mary approaches her seventeenth birthday, a bond forms between them that leads, on the last day of the year 1825, to a proposal of marriage. Sir Edwards outrage is immediate, his refusal isabsolute. The union will never take place. There appears to be only one solution . . .Praise for The ElopementHornbys Austen books are funny, bittersweet family sagas, impeccably researched and lavishly imagined The Times Tremendous Nigella LawsonHas all Austens wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twentyfirst century zap Ferdinand Mount, prizewinning author of Big Ceasars and Little CaesarsFew writers are as perspicacious or half as delightful as... | Gill Hornby The Elopement Paperback Book