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Also by Charlie Lovett:

The Enigma Affair, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Escaping Dreamland, October 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Escaping Dreamland, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
First Impressions, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
By: Charlie Lovett

Viking
October 2014
On Sale: October 16, 2014
Featuring: Sophie Collingwood
323 pages
ISBN: 0525427244
EAN: 9780525427247
Kindle: B00ISEONAS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction | Suspense

A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale

Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman’s Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature’s most popular and beloved authors: Jane Austen.

Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice—and ultimately threaten Sophie’s life.

In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie’s quest to uncover the truth—while choosing between two suitors— and a young Jane Austen’s touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.