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a story that haunts you' HEATHER CRITCHLOW 'Intriguing
” right when kids want to play
' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'This is crime writing of the highest quality' DAILY MAIL SOHO
this large-format illustrated work explores the evolution
Childhood Writings PG25 a story that haunts you'In her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. Composed between the ages of eleven and seventeen, they reveal a child's excitement in language and its imaginative possibilities. Most pieces are ebullient and anarchic; many are surreal, displaying gluttony, drunkenness, matricide, theft and excess,