Out on 06 November 2025
Book cover for Miss Jane

Miss Jane

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06 November 2025
288 pages
9781035061747
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Miss Jane is courageous, resilient and enquiring; her parents are troubled souls, but loving. That said, Watson doesn’t succumb to sentimentality . . . With the woods and fields of Jane’s rural home seeming to cast a subtle enchantment on her life, hers is a history that is as unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.
A bittersweet southern pastoral, the story of a forgotten woman written with unearthly beauty. If Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor had a child, it would be Brad Watson.
[Watson's] sensuous prose eases its way through vivid, deliberate scenes, rich with profound meaning . . . This proud, gentle novel shimmers with a subtle defiance, a near-physical need to celebrate a woman who lived against the odds.
A writer of profound emotional depths