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Lady Susan was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed. An epistolary novel in eighteenth-century style, it tells the story of the recently-widowed Lady Susan Vernon, intelligent but highly manipulative, who is intent on gaining financially secure relationships for both herself and her wayward but shy teenage daughter Frederica. Less known than Austen's six great later novels, it demonstrates the wit and sharp observations of Jane Austen - and is shown at its best in audiobook form - with a full cast bringing to life the individual letter-writers.

"Lady Susan is written in an epistolary style which, even when Austen produced it, harked back to an earlier literary age, but it has no less wit and sparkle than her six great novels. A masterful comic-character study. This production shows where Naxos excels: classic material performed by top-class actors in a production enriched by music."

The Sunday Times