Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
I find this sort of book, dramatisation of real life events, very distracting. I can't help but wondering the whole way through what is true and what isn't. In this case..... well.. very little is true. To be honest, I found this book a bit disappointing. I don't really see the point of it. Its only selling point is that it's about Jane Austen and keeping her legacy untarnished. But seriously, there's literally nothing in there that would have tarnished her even in those days! And it's all made up anyway! So... the Austen's were very close friends with the Fowles. Cassandra, the protaganist of the book, was due to marry one of the sons and one of the Austen brothers married one of the Fowle daughters. Cassandra's fiance died before they could marry but Jane and Cassie remain very close with Eliza, the wife of the oldest Fowle brother and stay in regular correspondence with her. When the oldest Fowle brother, who is the local vicar and head of the house...