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Mrs Bates of Highbury by Allie Cresswell

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Genre: Regency, romance, historical, Jane Austen spin-off

Tour Dates: 21st - 27th September 2018

Publication Date: 12th September 2018

Formats available: Mobi or PDF

First in a three book series

Estimated Page Count - 125

Types of post available: Review or limited Guest Posts,  Q&As and Extracts

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Meet a very different Mrs Bates from the elderly, entirely silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’. Thirty years before Miss Woodhouse was born finds her comparatively young, beautiful, widowed - but ready to love again. She is the lynch-pin of Highbury society until the appalling Mrs Winwood arrives, very determined to hold sway over that ordered little town.

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Miss Bates is as talkative aged twenty nine as she is in her later iteration, with a ghoulish fancy, seeing disaster in every cloud. When young Mr Woodhouse arrives looking for a plot for his new house, the two strike up a relationship characterised by their shared hypochondria, personal chariness and horror of draughts.

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Jane, the other Miss Bates, is just seventeen and eager to leave the parochialism of Highbury behind her until handsome Lieutenant Weston comes home on furlough from the militia and sweeps her - quite literally - off her feet.

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