Persuasion is Jane Austen’s best book, and her shortest— it’s more mature, and ruminative than Emma, gentler but also more dryly funny than Pride and Prejudice. Erivo does a really excellent job reading it, and it’s available on Spotify
I know Jane Austen isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. But I’m reading Sense & Sensibility right now and Marianne is sitting at her pianoforte crying over a guy she met two weeks ago, playing songs they used to sing together. 1700s girlies, they’re just like us.
