Eliza's Daughter: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

Joan Aiken

Nov 2008 · Sourcebooks, Inc.

About this ebook

A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life...

Because she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. An intelligent, creative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered by the strictures of her time, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her way to London, and eventually travels the world, all the while seeking to solve the mystery of her parentage. With fierce determination and irrepressible spirits, Eliza carves out a life full of adventure and artistic endeavor.

PRAISE FOR JOAN AIKEN

"Others may try, but nobody comes close to Aiken in writing sequels to Jane Austen."

PublishersWeekly

"Aiken's story is rich with humor, and her language is compelling. Readers captivated with Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility will thoroughly enjoy Aiken's crystal gazing, but so will those unacquainted with Austen."

Booklist

"...innovative storyteller Aiken again pays tribute to Jane Austen in a cheerful spinoff of Sense and Sensibility."

Kirkus Reviews

Ratings and reviews

Overall I truly enjoyed this book. It had a great plot and characters that, I believe several people can relate too. However, I wish greatly that the author expanded on the ending a bit more, it felt as though the ending was a last minute thought instead of a planned out the ending. In conclusion, if the author made a book to follow this one I would most definately purchase and read it, for the authors books are most captivating.

About the author

The late Joan Aiken was a prolific author of children's books and Jane Austen sequels and continuations. She is the author of Lady Catherine's Necklace, which follows Anne de Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Fairfax, a sequel to Emma.