Letters to Alice
On sale
31st March 2011
Price: £9.99
Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen’s to her own niece, ‘aunt’ Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer – it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.
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Reviews
Wise and wonderfully funny
Wise, sharp, informative . . . the advice about writing is sane and splendid . . . what I liked best about this book was its comic but reverent approach to true acts of imagination, in writer or reader
Witty, convincing and spirited . . . both a fascinating study of Jane Austen and a novelist's enquiry into her own art
A study of a writer (and reader) thinking aloud about art and civilization . . . it should be required reading, a prerequisite for students of literature.
Full of pithy reflections on Jane Austen's life and the society of the day . . . full of unsuspected wisdom
She writes with conviction and wit