Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible la...

Jane Austen's elegant novel of family, society and manners with an introduction by author and critic Henry Hitchings.

A pocket edition of Jane Austen's most sophisticated novel with an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings.