By Gill Hornby
Fiction/Century/Paperback/392 pages/$25.38/Buy here
4 out of 5
Towards the end of Gill Hornby's meticulously re-imagined, fictionalised biography of Cassandra Austen, the latter's pompous sister-in-law Mary shares a sudden flash of insight: "Oh, the stories of men will live on, I am sure...But our own? Not a bit of it. There will be no one to care about us."
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