Gill Hornby: The Elopement, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Three women, two families, one forbidden marriage. Get ready to fall in love with the brand-new regency romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Godmersham Park and Miss Austen , now a major BBC TV series.**

'Arichly imagined family saga, love story and social comedy 'Times

'Gripping and moving and also so sharp and funny . I loved it!' Sabine Durrant, bestselling author of Lie with Me

'Has all the wit and wisdom of a Jane Austen novel ' Red

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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, Mary's life is suddenly changed.

Mary's new stepmother, Fanny, comes from a large, happy and sociable family, and Fanny's 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 Edward's outrage is immediate, his refusal isabsolute. The union will never take place.

There appears to be only one solution . . .

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Praise for The Elopement :

'Hornby's Austen books arefunny, bittersweet family sagas, impeccably researched and lavishly imagined ' The Times

'Tremendous ' Nigella Lawson

'Has all Austen's wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twenty-first century zap ' Ferdinand Mount, prize-winning author of Big Ceasars and Little Caesars

'Few writers are as perspicacious or half as delightful as Hornby ' Karen Joy Fowler, international bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club

'A captivating return to the world of the Austens' Woman & Home

'Combines meticulous period research with a fine feeling for the characters' inner lives, hopes and fears' Daily Mail

Readers are lovingThe Elopement:

'I was hooked from the first page' 5-star reader review

'I loved every minute of this novel' 5-star reader review

'One of the best books I've read this year . It's a delight - by turns refreshing, funny, romantic, poignant and touching ' 5-star reader review

'Full of warmth, wit and suspense ' 5-star reader review

'It is so well-written with vivid period detail that I felt immersed in the Austen world anddid not want it to end' 5-star reader review