Meanwhile Jane's brother, Henry, begins to take an unusually strong interest in the lovely young governess. The restrictions placed on the plot to accurately reveal the life of a governess during the Regency era would entail making it challenging to hold the reader’s attention all the time. Soon, Anne finds herself pulled into the world of the Austen family – as she deals with an unexpected friendship with Jane and an impossible attraction with Henry. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. Based on actual individuals, all of Hornby's characters are engaging, and the small details of their daily lives build a colorful picture of this time and place.

The book has slowly and gently build to two crisis points: Anne’s discovery of the truth about her father and her past as well as Anne facing facts about her feelings for charming Henry and Jane Austen. As for the romantic subplot between Henry and Anne, the story would have been better off without it, for as noted earlier, it is entirely unconvincing.Anne, however, is not merely a purveyor of information concerning the Regency governess; she is a fully fleshed-out character with a well-developed arc. Drawing her plot from events described in the diary of Jane Austen’s niece, Fanny, Hornby imagines the early life of Fanny’s governess, Anne Sharp, who forged a close friendship with Jane. Reading Gill's novels always makes me want to re-read Jane Austen works but this time I'm also interested in looking up more non-fiction and would love to see Fanny's journals.

This is the perfect description of Anne's time at Godmersham Park, as she was always wary of offending both the family and the servants. The book has slowly and gently built to two crisis points: Anne’s discovery of the truth about her father and her past as well as Anne facing facts about her feelings for charming Henry and Jane Austen. La propia Jane Austen hace hincapié, por ejemplo en “Orgullo y prejuicio” en cuales son las enseñanzas adecuadas para una mujer o en “Sentido y sensibilidad” se indica que dependen de la bondad de familiares cuando se quedan solas y sin un padre que las apoye, tal y como les sucedió a la propia Austen o a Anne Sharp en sus vidas reales. Anne is thoroughly disillusioned from her excitement to teach another because like her mother, Fanny is uninterested in broadening her knowledge of the more studious subjects.She is friends with her mistress Elizabeth Austen’s sister Harriet Bridges who blows hot and cold in her friendship choosing Anne when there is no one else about. However, in the process, Anne reveals herself as not merely pretty, charming, and competent; she is clever too.