Shadow Cat Summer by Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith is Jane Austen's great-great-great-great-great niece and the author of Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas, a nonfiction guide that is being issued in the United States and the United Kingdom at the same time. Bloomsbury UK published three of her novels: The Bluebird Café (2001), Happy Birthday and All That (2003), and A Piece of Earth (2006). Smith is a Teaching Fellow in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, where he studied history. She was the Writer in Residence at Jane Austen's Home Museum in Chawton, Hampshire, from fall 2009 to summer 2010, and she continues to collaborate with the museum. Shadow Eyes, her debut children's book, was a finalist for The Kelpies Award in 2012. She's now working on a second book.