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Kintbury-based author Gill Hornby is an
authority on 18th-century novelist Jane
Austen. Most recently her adaptation of
Pride & Prejudice
, in collaboration with
composer Carl Davis, made its debut
at the Newbury Spring Festival, with
Hayley Mills narrating.
The concert will once again feature
during a weekend of Austen-themed
events in Kintbury at the end of June,
to mark the bicentenary of Austen’s
death.
HELEN SHEEHAN and LISSA
GIBBINS met up with Gill Hornby
to discuss their mutual love of Jane
Austen’s works and, in particular, the
regency author’s Kintbury connection
If adventures will not befall a young lad
Northanger Abbey
Pictures: Phil Cannings