The Jane Austen Remedy
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life
$27.36
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands where she lived alone for the next decade.
Ruth had fostered a lifelong love of reading, and from the moment she first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s she had looked to Jane …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761065989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176106598X |
| Author: | Ruth Wilson |
| Publisher: | Allen Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 216mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson read her first Jane Austen novel in 1947. In 2021, at the age of eighty-eight, she graduated from The University of Sydney with a PhD that suggests a new approach to reading literary fiction at school. She encourages her four children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren to read widely, wisely and well. She and her husband are LATs, a married couple who live apart together.
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