What would my life have been without
Jane Austen?
I
sat down to answer this question, thinking it would take just a few minutes.
That was before I started to really think about what it means, what it is
really asking of me. I found that I had no easy answer.
The
thought of not having read Jane Austen’s wonderful novels, of not knowing and
loving Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott, the
Dashwood sisters and their beaus and more is beyond my comprehension, they are
so much a part of me and who I am, not just as a writer but as a person.
