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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Clean, period-appropriate language modeled on Austen's style
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
Light and pleasurable
What this book is about
Jane Ellsworth lives in a world much like Jane Austen's England, where young women learn to manipulate glamour — a magical art form — just as they learn to play the pianoforte. When a glamourist arrives in their neighborhood, Jane's carefully ordered world begins to shift. Mary Robinette Kowal's debut is a loving Austen pastiche with a magical element woven in with perfect period consistency.
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