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Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
Charlie Lovett was an antiquarium bookseller and his love for books and writing shines through in his novels. His debut novel The Bookman's Tale was longlisted for the best first novel award in the United States. First Impressions is a highly imaginative mystery featuring one of the world's most loved authors Jane Austen. Sophie Collingwood is a Austen enthusiast who has recently began working at a London antiquarian bookshop. Two customers request the same eighteenth century book. Sophie is mysterfied and delves into the background of the book. The true penmanship of Austen's Pride and Prejudice is put into question and through her determination to find answers, Sophie's life in endangered. The story is told in a dual narrative between Sophie's quest to discover the truth and a young Jane Austen's friendship with an ageing cleric. Lovett has the skill to take you effortlessly between the two stories and you learn a great deal of what life must have been for an aspiring author in 1796. Anyone who loves Jane Austen will thoroughly enjoy First Impressions.
