Book Review: Persuasion, by Jane Austen (1817)
My teenage daughter is a bookworm – one with a particular taste for classics from the nineteenth century (see here ). As such, she was unimpressed with the paltry number of novels from that era that I can claim to have read. To start to put that right, she persuaded me to read her so-far favourite work by her favourite author – Jane Austens’s Persuasion . Having now completed my first J.A. novel, I can say that I’m happy to have been persuaded. I began reading at the start of December. There are a total of 24 chapters, most of which are relatively brief, and none are overly long. I concluded the book on Christmas Day and couldn’t help thinking it would make an excellent gift as a novel advent’s calendar – but don’t let that delay your reading of the book if it doesn’t happen to be that time of year! Previously, it would have taken some persuasion to convince me to pick up a J.A. novel. This attitude dates back to when my two sisters were teenage bookworms themselves, and woul...