A Return to Sanditon

For real lovers of Jane Austen’s work, a completion of her unfinished Sanditon as she might possibly have envisaged it herself. No zombies or other anachronistic gimmicks, but a number of interlaced love stories set against a gently satirical picture of the fads and fancies of the times, above all the rising fashion for sea bathing and the greed and folly that accompanied it.

When Charlotte Heywood leaves her large and conservative family of Kentish landowners to stay with the Parkers in the...