num_pages: 308
description: A thrilling literary mystery co-starring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookmans Tale Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut The Bookmans Tale. Now Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery featuring one of English literatures 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 Prejudiceand ultimately threaten Sophies life. In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophies quest to uncover the truthwhile choosing between two suitorsand a young Jane Austens 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.
language: English
title: First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
publisher: Viking