Paula Byrne

About The Author

Paula Byrne is the critically acclaimed author of five biographies, including Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, The Real Jane Austen, The Genius of Jane Austen, and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She lives in New York City with her husband, the academic and biographer Jonathan Bate.

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Books by Paula Byrne

Six Weeks by the Sea

A Novel

By Paula Byrne

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

A vivid historical novel about Jane Austen that explores a question that has fascinated Janeites for years—Austen wrote some of the greatest love stories in existence, but did she ever fall in love?

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