Book description
Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter in 1813 England, has long wished
to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden
aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles - in
the body of someone called Courtney Stone - is not exactly what she had
in mind.
Jane must quickly get to grips with a world in which everyone thinks she
is Courtney Stone: a dizzying world of horseless metal carriages,
unrestricted clothing, tiny apartments, all manner of flirting
,and unheard-of liberties for womankind. The only thing Jane appears to
have in common with Courtney is a love for the novels of Jane Austen.
But are the wise words of her favourite novelist enough to guide her
through this bewildering new world? And what is she to make of
Courtney's attentive friend Wes, who is as attractive and confusing as
the man who broke her heart back home?
As Courtney's romantic entanglements become her own, Jane wonders: Would
she actually be better off back in Regency England - and will she ever
be able to return? Rigler writes beautifully Laurie Viera Rigler s
first novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
, is the parallel story to Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
. Laurie is also the creator of Sex and the Austen Girl
, the Babelgum
comedy web series inspired by Laurie s Austen Addict novels. A longtime
resident of the very same Echo Park/Silverlake neighborhood in Los
Angeles in which Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
is set, Laurie now lives in nearby Pasadena, California, with her
filmmaker husband and their cat. Her
online home is at janeaustenaddict. com.
