Cost and Consequence

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Jane Austen's novels continue to win new readers. Aficionados want more. Sharing their passion, several writers over time have taken up Austen's unfinished last novel, posthumously published as Sanditon, channelling their interpretations of how she might have continued and finished it; or they write, inspired by Austen's text. COST AND CONSEQUENCE reimagines Sanditon in full. Beginning with a fresh retelling of Austen's original chapters, Cost and Consequence continues into wholly original narrative terrnitory, exploring what happens when a community dares to imagine itself differently. The coastal parish of Sanditon has no shortage of ambition, absurdity, pomposity, romance, gossip and human frailty There are plot twists, an elopement, a Machiavellian scheme and a wager. But what if its competing visions - Lady Denham's elitist spa, Mr Parker's optimistic health resort, Sir Rupert Altringham's exclusive gambling haven - could evolve into something more? Charlotte Heywood and Lennox Somerset are catalysts for change, as are Sir Rupert and Diana Parker. We discover that Sanditon's greatest promise lies not in attracting fashionable visitors, but in finding what its people can achieve together.