A review by doriastories
Mansfield Park Revisited by Joan Aiken, Jane Austen

4.0

I was very impressed with this book, much more so than I thought I would be. Mansfield Park Revisited - a sequel to Jane Austen's much-beloved and widely read Mansfield Park - represents a daunting challenge to even a seasoned and gifted writer. However, the late Joan Aiken proved herself more than competent; not only did she wear the style and setting of the original book like a glove, but she wrote what turns out to be a genuinely good book. Well-written, funny, touching, surprising, and almost totally satisfying without being maudlin or predictable; I'm not sure that Jane Austen could have written this book any better.