First Impressions · A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

**A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times–bestselling author of *The Bookman's Tale*. Charlie Lovett's new book, *The Lost Book of the Grail*, is now available.**

Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of *A Little Book of Allegories* by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of *Pride and Prejudice*—and ultimately threaten Sophie's life.

In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie's quest to uncover the truth—while choosing between two suitors—and a young Jane Austen's touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.