Just Jane by Nancy Moser

Just Jane
By Nancy Moser
Bethany House Publishers

Any fan of Jane Austin will be thrilled with this novel about her life. Nancy Moser does a wonderful job in Just Jane laying out the short life of Jane Austin. Ms. Moser introduces us to Jane at the age of 20 when she falls in love for the first time. Her first love is a man named Tom Lefory. This book is based on actual family letters and historical writings. It is Jane’s coming of age story.
Jane spends her days reading, writing, and talking with her sister Cassandra to whom she is very close. The reader travels with Jane through family trials, hardships, broken hearts and death. But we also experience her joy and final success when she is finally recognized as an author. Unfortunately most of her notoriety did not happen until after her death at the young age of 41.

This book was a comfortable friend, one I was sad to see end. I found Jane’s life as entertaining and interesting, if not more so, as any character in her book.

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