The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice HadlowJanice Hadlow was born in London and studied history at university. After a few years working for the House of Commons, she joined the BBC and became a television producer. She was the recipient of a number of awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society, as well as of Kings College, University of London. The Other Bennet Sister is her first novel. She currently lives in Edinburgh with her husband and has two sons.

Written with poetic prowess and political bite

Deep underground

make for an experience that is aesthetic as well as intellectual

A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself

he has never had a music lesson

But all of that changed in November 1938

To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex

one of many Aboriginal men to die protecting their country

dreaming about MEGA-crush Daniel and sunbathing by the pool on their family holiday to France

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the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore

the past is never far away - it binds three generations of remarkable women