The true story of the lives of Jane Austen's three nieces, their Pride and Prejudice-style courtships, dramas and disappointments, and their move to turbulent 19th century Ireland in a time of war and famine.
Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight May, Lou and Cass were Jane Austen s nieces. She knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died in 1817. Yet, had she lived, she would have seen them live out the plots of her famous novels.
