# The Sidmouth Letters

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- Book: [The Sidmouth Letters](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam/the-sidmouth-letters) ([The Sidmouth Letters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam/the-sidmouth-letters.md))
- Authors: [Jane Gardam](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-408-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1988-01-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results. With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny; we await- with dread- a stranger to tea in an Engliish home; we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss.