Sherwood Smith: Fair Winds and Homeward Sail

[bibliogramma]

Jane Austen created many memorable characters, painting rich and detailed portraits not only of her remarkable heroines, but of all the people around them. Sherwood Smith, in her novella Fair Winds and Homeward Sail: Sophy Croft's Story, has given us a fresh new look at one of Austen's more intriguing secondary characters, the sister of Persuasion's hero Frederick Wentworth.

Sophy Croft is a navy wife, who would rather be on board with her husband, even in the midst of war, than be left behind on safer shores. Sensible, practical, warm, friendly - she is a rock of comfort in the sea of excitable, haughty, frivolous, status-conscious, and otherwise flawed women that people Persuasion, and an example of the kind of woman that the heroine Anne Elliot can become, if fortune favours her.

How did Sophy come to be thus? What is her background - and by extension, the background of her brother Frederick, the man who captures Anne's heart?

Smith answers these questions in a fashion that is both true the the character Austen created, and satisfying to the Austen reader who always longs for just one more peek into the worlds that Austen crafted.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn]

Requesting from library.

[wordweaverlynn]

Rats. Putting on Kindle wishlist.

[bibliogramma]

Not certain about your book-buying budget, but it is quite inexpensive. I bought it from Book View Cafe.