Hanne's blog

This is the weirdest Jane Austen book I've read. Supposedly it is the first she wrote but it was only published after her death.

It is about young Catherine going to Bath with some friends of her parents, away from home for the first time, for some weeks and meeting some young people there, some of which are young men... She reads Gothic novels and has a very active imagination.

It is much more playful and less sinister than her later books and also it refers to being a novel all the time. "Our heroine" and comments on the plot etc.

I am not to say that this book is nice (read it to find our why) so I'll say it's sweet instead, but not as fascinating as some of her later stuff.