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One of the more seamless transitions from Austen's uncompleted novel; this completion is particularly gratifying

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True to the work of Jane Austen... the story is gentle and it provides a very enjoyable reading experience

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The first winter assembly in the town of D. in Surrey was to be held on Tuesday, October 13th and it was generally expected to be a very good one. Read the first page

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The next best thing to a new Jane Austen novel, 2 Jun 2005

By	Angela - See all my reviews

I have got an advance copy and think it's brilliant! It was hard to tell where Austen ends and Williams takes over because their language is very similar. I liked Emma and laughed a lot at her greedy sisters and the awful Tom Musgrave, who thinks he is God's gift to women. It made me think what it would have been like to be a young woman in Emma's situation, who is abandoned by her adopted mother and sent back to a family who seem to resent her, with no money and no job. It is a light-hearted book though, and well worth reading.

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The Watsons live, 1 Jun 2005

By	Diana E Forrest (Todmorden, UK) - See all my reviews

Continues the story of unmarried sisters and changes of fortune begun by Austen. By retaining the period mood and the shrewd eye, Williams achieves a smooth transition towards a convincing end for this story.

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Delightful, 10 Mar 2006

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I´ve never written a review, but I HAD to review this book--it is just awesome. Like many Janeites, I wish she would have left us with many, many more novels than she did, and have been yearning for books that take off on or complete her work while emulating her style. There are plenty of books out there attempting this, but I have found most of them disappointing. Well, not this one. As another reviewer remarked, it is difficult to tell where Austen´s original manuscript ends and the new material starts--the author has done a magnificent job adopting both Austen´s language and her style of setting and advancing plot, her ability to sketch character, her subtle humour, etc. I just loved this book, and only wished it would have been three times as long (as it was, I read it in one sitting). Highly, highly recommended!!

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One of the best completions of The Watsons
I have copies of, I think, all of the easily-obtainable completed versions of The Watsons (by: L. Oulton 1923; Edith and Francis Brown 1928; John Coates 1958; "Another Lady" 1977;... Read more

Published 21 months ago by Shedmaker

Excellent and engaging!
This is one of the two best Austen continuations I've read, the other being the Sanditon completion by Marie Dobbs. Read more

Published on 28 Jun 2003 by Reina77

I laughed, I cried, but I couldn't put it down!
I have read many versions of The Watson's and this is by far the best! What an uncanny sense of humour! I would never have thought it was written by a man... Read more

Published on 26 Jan 2000

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