First Impressions

A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale. Charlie Lovett's new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available.

Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of A Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice--and ultimately threaten Sophie's life.

In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie's quest to uncover the truth--while choosing between two suitors--and a young Jane Austen's touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.

Author: Charlie Lovett
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/29/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780143127727
ISBN10: 0143127721
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
Charlie Lovett is a former antiquarian bookseller, an avid book collector, and a member of the Grolier Club, the oldest and largest club for bibliophiles in North America. He and his wife split their time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Kingham, Oxfordshire, in England.