{"product_id":"9781448216604","title":"Lady Susan Plays the Game","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLady Susan Plays the Game\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Janet Todd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAusten's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781448216604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40600500568270,"sku":"9781448216604","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781448216604","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}