Kate Saunders has managed to create the impossible – a current day Little Women meets Pride and Prejudice.

A delicious tale of love and intrigue, the Marrying Game tells the story of four sisters struggling to cope with their father’s suicide. With his death the ancestral home of the aristocratic yet impoverished Hasty girls is under threat.

The Hastys though are determined not to allow Melismate to be torn from their grasp. As the bailiffs threats come ever closer, the eldest, Rufa, devises a cunning plan. With her sister Nancy they head down to London and so the Marrying Game begins