{"product_id":"lady-susan-plays-the-game-9781448216604","title":"Lady Susan Plays the Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janet Todd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAusten's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084756934807,"sku":"9781448216604","price":1420.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781448216604.webp?v=1767142761","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lady-susan-plays-the-game-9781448216604","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}