"Persuasion" by Jane Austen

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last completed novel, appeared in print a few months after the author's death in 1817. Although it is not her most famous novel, some critics consider it her finest and most mature.

The novel tells the story of 27-year-old Anne Elliot, who comes from a well-to-do family lately fallen on hard times. For financial reasons, Anne's family moves to Bath and rents out their estate to an admiral and his wife. This change in circumstances brings Anne back into contact with the brother of the admiral's wife, Captain Frederick Wentworth, to whom she was engaged eight years previously, before her family persuaded her to break off the engagement.

Wentworth is still single, and Anne still has feelings for him, but will he hold a grudge since Ann rejected him when her family's fortunes were higher? Or will the two of them get a second chance at love?