Austenland

Genre: Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit

Hale, Shannon. Austenland. New York : Bloomsbury, 2007.

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After reading Pride and Prejudice or watching the BBC movie version, did you want to meet your Mr. Darcy? Welcome to Austenland. This is your opportunity to go back to the Regency era of Jane Austen’s novels to feel what it would be like to be one of her characters.

Thirty-two-year-old Jane Hayes has been obsessed with Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. It is her secret guilty pleasure. Is it also the reason that all of her relationships have failed? Can any real man live up to Fitzwilliam Darcy? Her Great-Aunt Carolyn learns of this obsession before she dies. In her will she leaves Jane an all expense three week stay at Pembrook Park in Kent England to live out the fantasy. Which will she chose, reality or fantasy?

Adult/High School

2007 A Book Sense Pick for June