Calling all Austen fans! I have a treat for you! Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary of her birth with a special event!
Join me on Sunday, June 22 at 1 PM EDT, where I will be interviewing bestselling author, Natalie Jenner, as we talk about her latest book, Austen at Sea! Natalie is also the author of The Jane Austen Society, Bloomsbury Girl, and Every Time We Say Goodbye. Natalie writes beautifully and immersive historical fiction and to talk to her about her latest one, combined with celebrating all things will be an event that readers don’t want to miss!
Book Synopsis:
In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, have accomplished as much as women are allowed in those days. Chafing against those restrictions and inspired by the works of Jane Austen, they start a secret correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother, now in his nineties. He sends them an original letter from his sister and invites them to come visit him in England.
In Philadelphia, Nicholas & Haslett Nelson—bachelor brothers, veterans of the recent Civil War, and rare book dealers—are also in correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, who lures them, too, to England, with the promise of a never-before-seen, rare Austen artifact to be evaluated.
The Stevenson sisters sneak away without a chaperone to sail to England. On their ship are the Nelson brothers, writer Louisa May Alcott, Sara-Beth Gleason—wealthy daughter of a Pennsylvania state senator with her eye on the Nelsons—and, a would-be last-minute chaperone to the Stevenson sisters, Justice Thomas Nash.
It’s a voyage and trip that will dramatically change each of their lives in ways that are unforeseen, with the transformative spirit of the love of literature and that of Jane Austen herself. (Credit: St. Martin’s Press)
Author Bio:
Natalie Jenner is the author of The Jane Austen Society, which is being translated into twenty different languages worldwide,and the upcoming Bloomsbury Girls, which releases on May 17, 2022. The Jane Austen Society was a USA Today and LA Times bestseller, an Indie Next and LibraryReads selection, and was named one of Goodreads and Amazon’s Best Books of 2020. Prior to her late-in-life career as a novelist, Natalie worked as a corporate lawyer, a career coach, and most recently an independent bookstore owner in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs.
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