Willoughby’s Return – Win a pack of Jane Austen Greetings Cards

Do you think you know Sense and Sensibility? Today’s competition in celebration of the publication of Willoughby’s Return is to win a pack of Effusions of Fancy notecards. The pack of cards designed by yours truly from original watercolour paintings will comprise of the following: Pump Room at Bath Jane at Lyme Jane Austen and [...]

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Willoughby’s Return, a Sense and Sensibility Sequel

I’ve just received the cover from my editor at Sourcebooks for my new book Willoughby’s Return. I am absolutely thrilled, I think it’s gorgeous! Thank you to the designers who have worked on it, you’ve done a wonderful job, I don’t know how I shall manage to wait until November to hold a copy in [...]

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Willoughby’s Return, a Sense and Sensibility Sequel

I’ve just received the cover from my editor at Sourcebooks for my new book Willoughby’s Return. I am absolutely thrilled, I think it’s gorgeous! Thank you to the designers who have worked on it, you’ve done a wonderful job, I don’t know how I shall manage to wait until November to hold a copy in [...]

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Austen Effusions gets a new look and a Competition!

I’m very excited to tell you that I have a new web site, same address and name, Austen Effusions, but with a totally new look. The site has updates about my books, Effusions of Fancy, Lydia Bennet’s Story and Willoughby’s Return, including extracts, and a page about my interest in Jane Austen’s world, which shows [...]

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Jane Austen, Please Turn Round!

Jane Austen’s work has been hugely inspirational in my life. I love all of her novels but my favourites are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.I love the painting that Jane’s sister Cassandra painted of her sitting in a rural scene in a blue dress. There is that tantalizing curve of her cheek, [...]

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Jane Austen, Please Turn Round!

Jane Austen’s work has been hugely inspirational in my life. I love all of her novels but my favourites are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.I love the painting that Jane’s sister Cassandra painted of her sitting in a rural scene in a blue dress. There is that tantalizing curve of her cheek, [...]

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