Book description
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she
might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. She
senses that she would have found soul mates in Emma and Elinor, and
through good times and bad
S&S
and P&P
have been her secret under-the-duvet pleasures.
One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with
pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in
nineteenth-century England, in the bed (not to mention the slim and
svelte body) of a girl called Jane Mansfield. At first she thinks this
has to be some sort of weird dream, but slowly she becomes used to the
absence of toothpaste and fat-free food, and finds herself actually
enjoying Jane's life. Perhaps she could do without her wicked new â Â
mother' who wants to marry Jane off as soon as possible to the nearest
wealthy man ... although this may not be such a bad thing, as the
nearest wealthy man just happens to be the very dishy Charles Edgeworth.
But, in becoming Jane, Courtney has left some important unfinished
business behind, and she soon realises that in order to return to the
present day she needs not only to solve the riddle of Jane and Charles
but to get to grips with her own twenty-first-century relationship
phobias along the way.
A laugh-out-loud romp with a Regency heart, this delightful debut is a
truly modern comedy of manners. â  A charming novel ... Rigler
writers beautifully' Laurie Viera Rigler is the co-author of He
Rents, She Rents
and Popping the Question
, and a contributing author to The New York Public Library Business
Desk Reference
and The Big Book of Life s Instructions
. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
is her first novel.
When not indulging herself in re-readings of Jane Austen s six novels,
Laurie works as a freelance book editor. She has also tried her hand at
screen writing and script reading, and has worked as a producer of short
films - one of which was selected for the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Laurie has a BA in Classics from the State University of New York at
Buffalo. She is a member of the Authors Guild and, of course, the Jane
Austen Society of North America.
