Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters [Paperback]

Celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings.

In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone fromPride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant ofSense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans,Ladies in Waitingis a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.Adriana Trigiani is theNew York Timesbestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the instantNew York TimesbestsellerThe Good Left Undone. Her work has been published in thirty-eight languages around the world. An award-winning playwright, television writer/producer and filmmaker, Adriana’s screen credits include writer/director of the major motion picture of her debut novel,Big Stone Gap, the adaptation of her novelVery Valentineand director ofThen Came You. Adriana grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she cofoundedThe Origin Project, an in-school writing program serving over 1,700 students in Appalachia. She is at work on her next novel.

Sarah MacLean, a life-long romance reader, wrote her first romance novel on a dare, and never looked back. She is theNew York TimesandUSA TODAYbestselling author of romances translated into more than twenty languages, a romance columnist, and the cohost of the weekly romance novel podcastFated Mates. A graduate of Smith College and Harvard University, she lives in New York City.

Eloisa James is aNew York TimesandUSA TODAYbestselling author of historical romance novels. Her books havel)