Vernaya khranitel'nitsa naslediya Dzheyn Ostin, yeye starshaya sestra Kassandra, vozvrashchayetsya v Kintberi s taynoy missiyey nayti i unichtozhit' pis'ma, sposobnyye brosit' ten' na bezuprechnuyu reputatsiyu velikoy pisatel'nitsy. V sheleste pozheltevshikh stranits ozhivayet proshloye: bezzabotnyy smekh yunosti, pervyye klyatvy, golosa ushedshikh vozlyublennykh, gorech' nevospolnimykh utrat i tayny, kotoryye sestry doveryali lish' drug drugu. Dzhill Khornbi s masterstvom istorika i chutkost'yu khudozhnika risuyet dostovernuyu kartinu zhizni sem'i Ostin. Vykhodya za ramki traditsionnogo biograficheskogo romana, avtor dayet golos Kassandre svidetel'nitse stanovleniya i rastsveta unikal'nogo talanta Dzheyn. Velikolepnyy roman o «nevidimom» trude, vnutrenney sile i bezgranichnoy lyubvi, kotoraya perepisyvayet proshloye, ostavlyaya tol'ko samyye svetlyye glavy.
