Ladies in Waiting

Jane Austen's Unsung Characters

By: Adriana Trigiani, Sarah MacLean, Nikki Payne, Karen Dukess, Emily Harding

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Paperback | 18 December 2025

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Celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings.

In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans, Ladies in Waiting is a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.

About the Author

Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the instant New York Times bestseller The Good Left Undone. Her work has been published in thirty-eight languages around the world.

An award-winning playwright, television writer/producer and filmmaker, Adriana’s screen credits include writer/director of the major motion picture of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, the adaptation of her novel Very Valentine and director of Then Came You. Adriana grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she cofounded The Origin Project, an in-school writing program serving over 1,700 students in Appalachia. She is at work on her next novel.

Sarah MacLean, a life-long romance reader, wrote her first romance novel on a dare, and never looked back. She is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of romances translated into more than twenty languages, a romance columnist, and the cohost of the weekly romance novel podcast Fated Mates. A graduate of Smith College and Harvard University, she lives in New York City.

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