The Elopement

PRE-ORDER NOW: The new novel from the bestselling author of Miss Austen and Godmersham Park coming soon!'Gill Hornby’s trilogy about Jane’s family has all Austen’s wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twenty-first century zap, and The Elopement is the best yet' FERDINAND MOUNT ____________‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’1820.Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward - a man of strict principles and high Christian values. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life is suddenly changed. Her new stepmother comes from a large, happy and sociable family and Fanny’s sisters become Mary’s first friends.Her aunt, Miss Cassandra Austen of Chawton, is especially kind.Her brothers are not only amusing, but handsome and charming. And as Mary Dorothea starts to bloom into a beautiful young woman, she forms an especia