SIX WEEKS BY THE SEA (HB)

The Austen family descends upon a fashionable seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane's brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsome stranger, catches sight of Jane and is determined to make her acquaintance. Set against the backdrop of war with France, and naval and colonial politics, this novel proposes a fascinating story of how England’s most famous romance writer fell in love for the first time.