{"product_id":"book-hbhs","title":"Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSusan: a Jane Austen Prequel, \u003c\/em\u003ebrilliantly captures Austen's own Lady Susan as a young lady of sixteen. As the BookLife review put it for \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly:\u003c\/em\u003e \"McVeigh's prose and plotting are pitch-perfect.\u003cem\u003e Emma\u003c\/em\u003e mingles with \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e in a delightful confrontation between the two books' worlds... This Austen-inspired novel echoes the master herself.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSixteen-year-old Susan Smithson - pretty but poor, clever but capricious - has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But, at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins' rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and \"where nothing ever happens.\"  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere Susan mischievously inspires the local squire to put on a play, with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen. What with the unexpected arrival of Frank Churchill, Alicia's falling in love and a tumultuous elopement, rural Kent will never seem quite so safe again…    \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49421656752432,"sku":"BDhbhs","price":12.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hbhs-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773531349","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hbhs","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}