Paula Marantz Cohen

Cohen tackles Austen's final novel, Persuasion, about first love getting a second chance. At age 21, Anne Ehrlich was persuaded by her family to break up with her poverty-stricken boyfriend, Ben Cutler. Thirteen years later, Anne is working as a guidance counselor at a competitive high school when Ben, now the well-known founder of a travel guide series, walks back into her life.