"Wise, sharp, informative . . . shrewd and funny" - A. S. Byatt, Times Literary Supplement
"Wise, sharp, informative . . . shrewd and funny" - A. S. Byatt, Times Literary Supplement
Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic,...