When I Met Jane Austen: Kate Atkinson on Morals, Meaning and Mansfield Park

Writer Kate Atkinson tells Dr Paula Byrne why she didn't like Mansfield Park and its heroine Fanny Price on her first read, but has recently come to appreciate its complexity. Together, they examine a crucial moment in the novel when Fanny is gifted a cross and Kate reveals how a personal object is buried in her own novel, A God in Ruins