The Watsons

Rose Servitova’s new novel The Watsons continues Jane Austen’s unfinished work. Austen’s draft was just a few chapters, introducing the characters, and showing Emma Watson returning to her family after being raised by an aunt. The sisters are strangers to each other, and, of course, the daughters of not-so-wealthy families need to make advantageous marriages.

I loved the dialogue and characters here. Sure, it’s not Pride and Prej, there’s no Elizabeth and Darcy love story. But this is a real tribute to the drawing-room dialogue we love in Austen novels. There’s a whole manners novel here in the shades of behavior, and there’s so much to enjoy in the subtle (and not-so-subtle) remarks about other characters who’ve left the room for a moment.


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