Out & About June 2017

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

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