1840. Some years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the home of her family's friends, the Fowles, to find and burn a treasure trove of letters written by her sister. Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. Not only for fans of Jane Austen.