At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing and handsome naval captain with neither rank, fortune nor connections.

What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

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