Summary: Transported through time to Regency England. Fans of the ever-expanding inspired-by-Austen-lit garden party will find a winner here it doesn't hurt that Austen has a brief, comical cameo. Confessions of a Jane Austen addict : a novel / Laurie Viera Rigler. While her 21st-century anachronisms can be comical, Courtney, for such an Austen “addict,” is unconvincingly naïve about Regency norms.

As her identity starts to meld with Jane's, Courtney rethinks who she wants to be (and to be with) in any time period. This delightful sequel to Riglers Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict has 19th-century Jane Mansfield switching bodies and milieus with contemporary L.A. 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. While still haunted by “real-life” memories, Courtney, as Jane, soon gets swept up in this Austenesque world of decadent meals and grand balls, gentlemen in “form-fitting knee breeches” and traveling with her friend Mary, whose brother, Charles Edgeworth, appears to have an interest in Jane that Courtney struggles to understand. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler - Reading Guide: 9780452289727 - : Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles. The Complete Jane Austen Addict: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict Pride and Prejudice Kindle Edition by Laurie Viera Rigler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 3 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £16. She's inhabiting the body of Jane Mansfield, a manor-born Englishwoman who, at 30, has yet to find a husband, confounding her humorless, “Miss Bossy-corset” stand-in mother. Courtney Stone, a single Los Angeles woman recovering from the double whammy of a broken engagement and a failed friendship, wakes up after a night of self-medicating with her “drug of choice,” Jane Austen novels, to find herself in 1813 England. Listen to Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler available from Rakuten Kobo. Clever time-travel setup functions as the prime attraction for this breezy debut novel.

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