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Miss Austen
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Lu par :
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Juliet Stevenson
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Gill Hornby
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The Sunday Times bestselling novel, soon to be a major series on BBC One and BBC iPlayer starring Keeley Hawes in 2025.
Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?
1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles.
She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed.
As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?
Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.
'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' Observer
'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' Claire Tomalin
'Celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' Sunday Times
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Commentaires
However, I did not particularly appreciate the performance of Juliet Stevenson. Her voices for the older characters were ok, but the voices of younger women and especially the men, were just dreadful. Isabella sounded like a 50 year old spinster and Tom Fowle like a stuck up young idiot boy. she should have just read the book with her own voice instead of impersonating all the characters, this really ruined the audio experience for me. I saw the BBC series after I had finished the book and it was just wonderful to see the actual characters come to life. This is one of the rare occasions where I would have preferred to actually read the book.
bringing the Austen sisters to life
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