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New Regency Era Novel Coming Based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
This is a library of books and writings that I, D B Thomas, have published.
Ricordi di Sanditon
Summary
“Se una giovane donna non avrà avventure nel suo villaggio, dovrà cercarle all’estero.” Così scriveva Jane Austen nel 1803. Jane Austen iniziò il suo ultimo romanzo, Sanditon, nel 1817 scrivendone dodici capitoli prima di metterlo da parte. A causa della sua morte, avvenuta quello stesso anno, non lo finì mai. Ricordi di Sanditon è un romanzo d’amore che racconta il resto della storia attraverso gli occhi dell’eroina di Jane Austen, Charlotte Heywood. La storia di Charlotte inizia prima di quella scritta da Jane Austen nel 1812, in una fattoria nel villaggio inglese di Willingden, dove vive rintanata dal resto del mondo, con il quale ha contatti solo attraverso i suoi libri e i suoi sogni finché, un giorno del 1818, un incidente su una strada molto accidentata la costringe a soggiornare lontano dal suo villaggio, a Sanditon appunto, una zona di pescatori che aspira a diventare una località balneare alla moda. Ospitata da Tom Parker e da sua moglie, Charlotte si ritrova proprio nel cuore della società, circondata da persone che non conosce compreso il fratello di Tom, Sidney Parker. Ma Sidney è davvero quello che sembra, e Charlotte può fidarsi del suo istinto e del suo cuore in questo nuovo mondo?
Sanditon on Reflection
Summary
Jane Austen began her last novel, Sanditon, in 1817 and wrote twelve chapters before putting it aside. With her death the same year, she never finished it.
Sanditon on Reflection is a regency era romantic mystery that tells the rest of the story as seen through the eyes of Jane Austen’s heroine, Charlotte Heywood. This telling of Charlotte’s story begins before Jane Austen’s does in 1812 on a farm in the English village of Willingden near the south coast of England.
She lives there with very limited access to the rest of the world, except through her books and dreams until, one day in 1818, a happenstance on a ”very rough Lane” gains her a sojourn away from her village to Sanditon, a fishing village with aspirations of becoming a fashionable seaside resort.
Hosted by Tom Parker, the eccentric mastermind behind the scheme, and his wife, Mary, Charlotte finds herself right in the heart of Sanditon society, which includes Tom’s brother Sidney Parker, “of about seven or eight and twenty” and “very good-looking.” But is he what he seems and can she trust her instincts and her heart in this new world?
The hazards of love and an intriguing mystery test Charlotte’s character and conviction in ways she would never have imagined. The secret behind that mystery and the choices she must make in a Regency world filled with intrigue, avarice and obsession will shake Charlotte to the core as she faces challenges to know herself and her past as she seeks to find love and that all important HEA.
About the Author
I am an actor and a writer! These are two truly noble pursuits of human beings, opening doors you would never otherwise know existed. Life is too short not to give both a go. I only wish I had started earlier. But as we all know, it is never too late until it is.
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For the Italian version Ricordi di Sanditon, you may find your copies here:
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