The chitchatted… Jane thought she understood why Austen often left these conversations up to the narrator and spared the reader the grotesquery of having to follow it word by word.
… and the author’s clear self-awareness of the Austen link throughout: I very much enjoyed the interweaving of classic English literature references, such as:Ī comfortable-sized room with a canopied bed, baby blue walls, sparsely furnished, not gothic enough to tempt her to look for ‘Catherine Heathcliff’ engravings on the windowsill. Her voice was soft sand beaten by waves till it’s as fine as powdered sugar. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass. The writing is well-researched, fresh, original and colourful, with lovely descriptive touches, such as: I loved the premise – a modern-day heroine plunged into Austen’s world – and I found it startlingly realistic (and rather appealing) to the point that I found myself, as I read, itching to click onto a search engine and see whether such full-immersion literary retreats actually exist in England. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little, and Jane Hayes, pretty enough and clever enough, was certainly thought to have little to distress her. No prizes for guessing why I bought this book to read and review! From the first line, I was smiling: Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man – perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr.
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