Searching for Captain Wentworth A Timeslip novel inspired by Persuasion I've always loved Bath and Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and so it was a matter of time before I wrote my first Timeslip novel in 2010. It took a long time to summon up the courage to publish it in 2012 - I loved writing the book, and it will always have a special place in my heart because of all the associations with its setting, and walking in Jane Austen's footsteps. I'm posting a number of chapters over the next week or so - I hope you enjoy them. When Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it’s an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns she’ll be living next door to the house where Jane Austen lived. On discovering that an ancient glove belonging to her mysterious neighbour, Josh Strafford, will transport her back in time to Regency Bath, she questions her sanity, but Sophie is soon caught up in two dimensions, each reality as certai...