Godmersham Park: The Sunday Times top ten bestseller by the acclaimed author of Miss Austen

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Her arrival at the park shows us all of the confusion that would have been felt by a young woman who has been flung into a totally different life to the one that she expected. She also meets Jane Austen when she comes to stay and their lifelong friendship begins as they put on theatrical performances together and go for long walks.

The book has slowly and gently build to two crisis points: Anne’s discovery of the truth about her father and her past as well as Anne facing facts about her feelings for charming Henry and Jane Austen.Written with deft skill, ingenuity, and clever wit Gill Hornby once again delivers an illuminating and thoughtful tale that seamlessly blends fact and history with imagination and possibility. In 1804, Anne Sharp in need to support herself after the death of her mother, and with not much help from her estranged father, finds herself the only position a young unmarried woman in poor disposition would have, as a governess. Hornby vividly portrays the limited and proscribed roles available to women, who were forced to marry men they did not love, or to live precariously or in poverty.

It drives home the truth that servants in those days were often not allowed to have feelings or express complaints to those considered above their station. From the number one bestselling author of Miss Austen , a powerful and moving novel featuring Jane Austen's closest friend and confidante . She is compelled to take the only “respectable” work available to women of her standing: becoming a governess at Godmersham Park, home of Jane Austen’s elder brother, Edward, and his wife, Elizabeth. She has been my girl for more years than I’m able to count, and I can’t think of a day where she will not be, in fact, my girl.I wouldn’t have minded several chapters more exploring more of Anne’s relationships with the Austen siblings beyond the years she served at Godmersham Park. Henry por otro lado, se mueve entre un héroe austeniano con la desgracia de tener esposa, y no prometida, y por otro, por alguien que es un seductor, una especie de Willoughby, y todo me resultaba muy extraño.