LONA MANNING
"Manning's writing style is so Austenian that I'm second-guessing the possibility of reincarnation."
                 -- AE Walnofer, author of A Girl Called Foote
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Welcome to my website, which includes information about my writing and my time in China as an ESL teacher.

My award-winning debut novel, A Contrary Wind: a variation on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, is available on Amazon and through Kindle Unlimited!  

A Marriage of Attachment, the sequel, is also available.

A Different Kind of Woman, the final volume of the Mansfield Trilogy is now out!

And check out my new novella, Shelley and the Unknown Lady!