Charlie Lowe has two obsessions: saving Stoneford Village Green from unscrupulous developers, and researching her ancestor, Louis Augustus Duran, whose origins are a complete mystery.  
 
When a freak lightning strike and a rogue computer virus send her back to 1825, Charlie discovers she must persuade a reluctant Sarah Foster to marry Duran, or two centuries of descendants - including herself - will never be.  
 
Unhappily, Louis Duran turns out to be a despicable French count who spends his days attempting to invent the first flushing toilet in Hampshire, when he’s not busy impregnating - and dismissing - a succession of unfortunate housemaids.  
 
As Charlie struggles to influence the impossible - even she’s convinced Duran’s an utter wanker - she falls head over heels in love with Duran's groom, Mr. Deeley. But the course of true love doesn’t run smoothly, especially when Mr. Deeley is falsely accused of setting fire to the local inn - a hanging offence - and Charlie contracts an illness which is curable in her own time, but fatal in 1825.  
 
Combining the language, humour and manners of Jane Austen’s era with charming characters and colourful storytelling, Persistence of Memory is a mystery, a love story and a novel about accidental time travel.  
 
Staying true to all that is Austen, our heroine does her best to encourage the happiness of those who surround her. But will she be able to mend a matrimonial wrong...restore the Village Green to its rightful owner...and, most particularly, conclude the tale in the company of the gentleman with whom she was always meant to be...?  
 
You may acquaint yourself with the answers, gentle reader, here, within Persistence of Memory.