Persuasion is concluded. Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth are engaged. William Elliot has fled to London, with the widow Penelope Clay on his heels. But war is lurking, a final denouement with Bonaparte.

With Bath emptying, what's Sir Walter Elliot and his eldest daughter Elizabeth to do?

It's a question that haunts Elizabeth. She decides to put pen to paper to describe this new, lonely life away from Kellynch. And away from that worthless William Elliot.

This is her diary of that period.