Having written the previous sentence I stretched out my hand for Northanger Abbey and found it wasn't there. I had left my copy somewhere, in Abu Dhabi, or New York or Colchester, how am I to know? Whereupon I wept, reproached, and disrupted the entire household and became obsessed with the notion that I had not enough bookcases.
Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen.