Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist 200 years after her death we seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & sensibility and the smouldering passion of Pride & prejudice resulting in a near constant supply of film adaptations and spin-off books. The fan market for Austen - the Austenites - is huge and international. This book reveals the real Jane: bitchy, gossipy, badly behaved at times, as well as showing the side we all love: the writer, sister, true romantic.