by Colleen McCullough · Espasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467032734
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«La nueva vida de Miss Bennet» is the contemporary fiction novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Espasa in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty years after the events of «Orgullo y prejuicio», the story centres on Mary Bennet, the younger sister, who rejects marriage and conventional life. Free of family obligations, she decides to travel and write a book to denounce the situation of the most disadvantaged, although her endeavour will lead her down a much harder path than expected.
First volume in the Espasa Narrativa collection. Its original title is “The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet”, originally published in 2008.
Suitable for readers of period novels, historical fiction and reinterpretations of Jane Austen.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
