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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict |
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| eBook: eReader | 8.26 x 5.23in | 304 pages | ISBN 9781429560337 | 02 Aug 2007 | Plume |
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View our feature on Austen-inspired books and special content.
After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?
Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condom-less seducers, and marriages of convenience.
This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. But when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to? Read Laurie Viera Rigler's posts on the Penguin Blog.
“A devotee of all things Austen… discovers the reality of life in Regency England: rampant body odor, sexual and class repression and a style of medical care involving bloodletting.… Despite the smells, little in [her] current lifestyle—including most of the men—can compete with the erotic charge of dancing in a candlelit ballroom.”
—USA Today
“[A] delightful comic romp… Jane Austen makes a cameo appearance that is pure pleasure.”
—The Times Picayune
“[A] charming novel… Rigler writes beautifully… a light and deftly orchestrated visit to 1813.”
—Austenblog.com
“[A] winner.”
—Publishers Weekly
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