Margaret H. (ExPeruanista) - , reviewed on 5/21/2013 + 68 more book reviews

Poor Jane Austen is probably rolling in her grave from the bad treatment her manuscript fragment has received here. The first 60 or 70 pages are quite good, as they're apparently a fairly unmodified version of what Miss Austen wrote before she died. After that, Julia Barrett takes over, and it's all explain, explain, explain, with not much dialog and none of it witty. Characters clearly intended to be comical turn dull, characters intended to be witty become prosy bores.If anyone would like to read a better completion of this Jane Austen fragment, I recommend the one published as 'Sanditon' by Jane Austen and Another Lady. Five stars for the part Jane Austen wrote and perhaps one for Julia Barrett's work.

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