As 80 year old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes her nursing home & returns to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistle Stop Cafe provides good barbecue, good coffee, love & even an occasional murder.

Presents an observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.

'Mansfield Park' is Jane Austen's most profound and perplexing novel. Sutherland shows that it challenges the very values (tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse. This edition includes a new chronology, and additional suggestions for further reading.