PERSUASION

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. This book tells about what happens when they encounter each other again. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.