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Jane Austen abandoned her novel The Watsons, leaving the characters without an ending…

Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife.

Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich.

So far so familiar. But there's a problem: who will write Emma's happy ending?

In steps Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Home, I'm Darling, Colder Than Here) to confront the characters and decide what happens next.