Description
When news arrives that her family must leave their beloved country home for Bath, Jane Austen is thrown into shock—until the promise of a six-week seaside holiday offers a brief escape. In the bracing world of Sidmouth, she finds renewal in sea air and companionship with Cassandra and her closest friend, while the arrival of her brother Frank and the intriguing presence of Captain Parker complicate the social currents around her. As Jane helps the eccentric Reverend Swete shelter his bi-racial granddaughter and navigates misunderstandings with a new acquaintance, her keen emotional intelligence begins to test what she believes about love, loyalty, and the stories people tell themselves. With Paula Byrne’s historically grounded, Austen-adjacent wit, this vivid novel imagines the romantic summer that might have shaped the author’s most enduring questions—whether Austen only wrote love, or ever truly felt it.
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paperback
Pegasus Books
Published Aug 5, 2025
ISBN: 9781639369256
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Six Weeks by the Sea by Paula Byrne.