Kinga
Brady

Jane Austen's world has long been my literary home. Through my variations, I explored alternative paths, emotional nuances, and the "what-ifs" hidden between her lines.

My journey began with Dear Sir, — a daring variation that earned both lavish praise and, remarkably, death threats from die-hard Pride and Prejudice fans who objected to my boldest creative choice.

Over time, a quiet question surfaced: What if I stepped beyond adaptation and created a story wholly my own — while remaining true to the elegance and emotional depth I cherish?

That question gave birth to Whispers of the Heart, my first original Regency romance, featuring characters shaped entirely by my imagination. Their struggles are not borrowed. Their love must be earned.

Each novel I write — whether variation or original — is deeply Regency in spirit: introspective, restrained, socially observant, and driven by character rather than spectacle.

Beyond fiction, my curiosity led me down an unexpected path — linguistics. It began with a single word: sail in English, szél (wind) in Hungarian — the same sound, the same meaning, one needs wind to sail. That one coincidence opened a door to a lifetime of research into the long-lost connection between English and Hungarian, tracing words back to a shared ancient European language. The further I looked, the more I found: house and ház, water andvíz — words whose origins the etymology dictionaries leave as "unknown," yet which fall perfectly into place when seen from the Hungarian view.

I share these discoveries on my companion website, The English Language from the Hungarian View — an ongoing project exploring how today's Hungarian, the direct descendant of that ancient tongue, preserves the living structure from which countless English words derive. It is, in its own way, another kind of story — one told in the roots of the words we speak every day.