Lady Susan Plays the Game

A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.Austen's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man.Accurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Todd
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781448216604
• ISBN: 978-1-4482-1660-4
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Epistolary, Humour, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Epistolary fiction, Fiction: inspired by or adapted from other media