First Impressions: A Novel

First Impressions: A Novel

<b>A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the <i><i>New York Times</i></i>–bestselling author of <i><i>The Bookman’s Tale. </i></i><b>Charlie Lovett’s new book,<i> The Lost Book of the Grail</i>, is now available.</b></b><br><br>Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of <i>A Little Book of Allegories </i>by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>—and ultimately threaten Sophie’s life.<br><br>In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie’s quest to uncover the truth—while choosing between two suitors—and a young Jane Austen’s touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.