Godmersham Park

So envious of anyone yet to read this. A triumph!

So envious of anyone yet to read this. A triumph!

A masterly piece of storytelling.

Utterly absorbing and illuminating. Written with a sure and stylish hand. Gill Hornby's best book yet.

I read it straight through without looking up ... Godmersham Park provided me with a perfectly contented day.

The great writer is brought to life in this clever, well-researched piece of fiction.

Thoroughly entertaining, Godmersham Park has some of the same understated wit and sharp observation as Austen's novels.

Meticulously researched, Hornby's absorbing novel revels in the joys and tensions of life above and below stairs.

Gill Hornby is the author of The Hive and All Together Now, as well as The Story of Jane Austen, a biography of Austen for younger readers. Her subsequent novels, Miss Austen and Godmersham Park were Sunday Times bestsellers, and Miss Austen is a four-part BBC adaptation starring Keely Hawes as Cassandra Austen. She is also the President of the Jane Austen Society. She lives in West Berkshire with her husband and four children.