Sanditon Av Jane Austen

<b>A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn</b><br><br>Written in the last months of Austen's life, <i>Sanditon </i>features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town determined to reinvent itself - and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney Parker.<br><br>This edition also includes the early epistolary novel <i>Lady Susan</i> and the delightful fragment <i>The Watsons.</i>