THE SMART TRICK OF PERSUASION THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Anne Elliot is twenty-7 and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to invest the rest of her existence ready on her impression-obsessed father and extravagant older sister; seeking to sustain their once lavish, now dwindling spouse and children estate; and sometimes babysitting the children of her married more youthfu