Miss Austen
Gill Hornby Interviewed by Peter Kemp
Saturday, 4 April 2020
2:00pm
1 hour
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
£7 - £12.50
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Novelist Gill Hornby imagines the life of Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra and considers why she might have destroyed a treasure trove of letters from her famous sibling.
The story follows Cassandra as she returns to the family’s vicarage home in Kintbury 23 years after Jane’s death. She discovers a collection of family letters containing secrets she feels should not be revealed. Cassandra reflects on her youth and the life of her sister including long-buried truths from both their pasts. Should she let the letters colour Jane’s legacy or should she protect her reputation whatever the cost?
Hornby is author of the novels The Hive and All Together Now and of a biography of Austen for young readers. Here she talks to chief fiction reviewer of The Sunday Times Peter Kemp.
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