Sanditon on Reflection

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad." So wrote Jane Austen in 1803.

Jane Austen began her last novel, Sanditon, in 1817 and wrote twelve chapters before putting it aside. With her death the same year, she never finished it.

Sanditon on Reflection is a regency era romance that tells the rest of the story as seen through the eyes of Jane Austen's heroine, Charlotte Heywood. This telling of Charlotte's story begins before Jane Austen's does in 1812 on a farm in the English village of Willingden near the south coast of England. She lives there with very limited access to the rest of the world, except through her books and dreams until, one day in 1818, a happenstance on a ''very rough Lane" gains her a sojourn away from her village to Sanditon, a fishing village with aspirations of becoming a fashionable seaside resort.

Hosted by Tom Parker, the eccentric mastermind behind the scheme, and his wife, Charlotte finds herself right in the heart of Sanditon society, which includes Tom's brother Sidney Parker, "of about seven or eight and twenty" and "very good-looking." But is he what he seems and can she trust her instincts and her heart in this new world?

The hazards of love and an intriguing mystery test Charlotte's character and conviction in ways she would never have imagined. That secret and the choices she must make in a Regency world filled with intrigue, avarice and obsession will shake Charlotte to the core as she faces challenges to know herself and her past while she looks to find love and that all important HEA.

Author: D. B. Thomas
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 07/07/2021
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.34w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781098375652

About the Author
Thomas Hamby, writing as DB Thomas, is an actor and writer who shares his time between Finland and Florida USA. He is a great fan of Jane Austen and British Period Drama. Of note, he had the great honor of being presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth with whom he had a conversation, albeit a short one, about the importance of agriculture to the development and maintenance of world civilization. You can discover more about him through his Instagram account at https: //www.instagram.com/db_thomas_hamby/ and his IMDB account at https: //www.imdb.com/name/nm9362545/. You can read his step outline entitled Sanditon - HEA Found written for possible development into a Sanditon Season 2 screenplay which also includes analysis and comments for the 2019 ITV/MasterpiecePBS production of Sanditon Season 1 at: https: //www.booksie.com/users/db-thomas-288777 . Marjan de Jonge is a Dutch Impressionist Painter. Her work has been shown in the world famous Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands.