April 2022 Book, Persuasion
Talk About Books meets every third Wednesday of the month at Guilford Free Library at 6:30. We are not committed to any particular genre, but select according to group interest for the next month. At the March meeting, the attendees decided they wanted to read a classic, thus Persuasion by Jane Austen is our choice for discussion on April 20th. Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of twenty-seven years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was "persuaded" by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a seven-year separation, setting the scene for many