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The Sidmouth Letters

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349114088

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Jane Austen’s love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like ‘The Sidmouth Letters,’ bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.

With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny; we await- with dread- a stranger to tea in an Engliish home; we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss.

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... combines an extraordinary vivid imagination with a felicity of expression, a hugely developed sense of the absurd, and the ability to involve a reader's emotions with her characters in a few pages.
EVENING STANDARD
Brilliantly observed... moving.
THE TIMES
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Observer
The economical exactitude of her observation makes each of these eleven stories a keen pleasure.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A fresh and huge delight... deliciously barbed.
GUARDIAN