The Jane Austen Remedy : It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen's works universally provide.' NATALIE JENNERRuth Wilson first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s and has returned to Jane Austen countless times over the course of a long life. After her sixtieth birthday, she took the radical decision to retreat from her conventional married life and live alone while confronting feelings of loss and unhappiness. As Wilson read between the lines of Austen's six major novels, she felt herself reclaiming her voice and her sense of self. An uplifting memoir of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading, The Jane Austen Remedy is an inspirational account of nine vivid decades, unravelling memories and searching for small truths to help explain the arc of a life that has been both ordinary and extraordinary.

''Essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen''s works universally provide.'' NATALIE JENNER

Ruth Wilson first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s and has returned to Jane Austen countless times over the course of a long life. After her sixtieth birthday, she took the radical decision to retreat from her conventional married life and live alone while confronting feelings of loss and unhappiness. As Wilson read between the lines of Austen''s six major novels, she felt herself reclaiming her voice and her sense of self.

An uplifting memoir of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading, The Jane Austen Remedy is an inspirational account of nine vivid decades, unravelling memories and searching for small truths to help explain the arc of a life that has been both ordinary and extraordinary.

A moving account of the reassessment of a full life through the prism of Jane Austen''s beloved works A truly inspirational author who overhauled her life in her seventies, leaving her husband of fifty years and rereading Austen''s novels to make sense of her past and what to do next Ruth''s journey through reading and rereading will chime with bibliophiles everywhere Wilson completed a PhD at 88 in teaching and reading Austen and publishes this thought-provoking memoir as she enters her nineties