[Jane Austen Heroes 03] • Le Journal Du Capitaine Wentworth

Amanda Grange continues her series of much-loved Jane Austen retellings with

"Captain Wentworth's Diary". It is 1806, and the Napoleonic wars are ravaging

Europe. Frederick Wentworth, a brilliant young man with a flourishing career

in the navy, is spending his shore leave in Somerset, where he meets and falls

in love with Anne Elliot. The two become engaged, but Anne's godmother

persuades Anne to change her mind, leaving Wentworth to go back to sea a

bitter and disappointed man. Eight years pass, and peace is declared.

Wentworth is no longer a young man with his way to make in the world, but a

seasoned captain with a fortune at his disposal. He is ready to marry anyone

with a little beauty who pays a few compliments to the navy - or so he says -

until he sees Anne. Anne's bloom has faded, yet she has the same sensibilities

and superior mind she had eight years earlier, and before he knows it, he is

falling in love with her all over again. Can there be a happy outcome for them

this time around, or have they lost their chance of love forever?