Sanditon

Jane Austen's tantalising final work, left unfinished at her death.

At a glance In a would-be seaside resort abuzz with speculation and hypochondria, her sharpest… A sleepy fishing village is being remade into a fashionable watering-place by men drunk… What it's about In the fragment she was writing when illness overtook her, Jane Austen… The sensible Charlotte Heywood comes to stay and observes the whole comic enterprise…

In the fragment she was writing when illness overtook her, Jane Austen turns her attention to Sanditon, a small coastal spot being aggressively promoted into a seaside resort by the enthusiastic speculator Mr Parker…