{"product_id":"9781448213450","title":"Lady Susan Plays the Game","description":"A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.\u003cbr\u003eAusten's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan,  is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter.  Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables.  Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124053819632,"sku":"9781448213450","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448213450_p0.jpg?v=1763828582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448213450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}