
I mentioned Jane Austen yesterday, and today I wanted to mention Gill Hornby’s new book which is the third that she’s written around Jane Austen’s family. I really enjoyed Miss Austen and Godmersham Park and I’m looking forward to reading this one. Looking at the blurb this is focusing into a family that Austen’s niece marries into and the family from Godmersham Park. I suspect this will be really easy to get hold of – the others have been and of course we’ve just had the TV adaptation of Miss Austen (which I really need to get around to watching) which may lead to increased visibility for this unofficial trilogy of Austen-adjacent novels.
I definitely want to read this one. I enjoyed both of her two previous books and loved the TV series too although the first episode felt very slow.
Yes, Fanny Knight, the daughter of Edward Knight/Austen, married into the Knatchbull family – I used to know how they were related to the Earl Mountbatten Knatchbulls but have forgotten 🙂 , but it’s the same family! – and her brother eloped with one of her stepdaughters.