WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA VICKERYThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer & illustrator Leanne Shapton & introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers & Austen fans Alexander Mc Call Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James & Andrew Motion ' The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up However Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her position Her only ally is her cousin Edmund When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area Henry & Mary Crawford Edmund starts to grow close to Mary & Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before