Follow Jane Austen through successive winters and Christmases from the age of seven until her final Christmas at forty-one. This book imagines Jane's innermost feelings as she experiences childhood festivities and family theatricals; the trauma of leaving her old home for Bath and the loss of her beloved father; her first romance and a mortifying proposal; the frustrations of writer's block during exile in Bath and Southampton and her eventual fulfilment as a writer once she returns to rural Hampshire; the joys and irritations of family life and the enduring love and encouragement of her sister Cassandra.
