About the book: 2012 / Continuation of Jane Austen's most famous novel - from the author of The Thorn Birds! Jane Austen is one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, a classic English prose, whose works are still loved by critics, literary scholars, ordinary readers, and filmmakers who never tire of filming them. There is a literary legend: Austen planned to write a sequel to her most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, but died early prevented these plans. Already today, Colleen McCullough herself, the author of the magnificent “The Thorn Birds,” has taken on this continuation. Perhaps her version of the fate and adventures of one of the Bennet sisters, the determined suffragette Mary, is very different from what Austen herself intended .But does this make her novel less talented and exciting??