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 espe