Persuasion by Jane Austen

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. Jane Austen began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. Jane Austen died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818).
Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805.
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepts a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He is clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections. Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and sister are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuades her to break the engagement.
Still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories. However, he has not forgiven Anne and while publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, privately resolves that he is ready to become attached... (Summary by Wikipedia)