Synopsis
“When one has read the six great Austen novels…and then reread and then reread the six again, one’s only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine.”
—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the inimitable Austen—not to mention fans of more contemporary delights such as The Jane Austen Book Club. Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer is a delightful, funny, poignant novel in which a contemporary woman—an obsessed Austenphile—learns much about life, love, and herself during one magical summer in England spent re-enacting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
About Cindy Jones
See more books from this AuthorIn despair, having recently been fired for reading Jane on the job, Lily, accompanied by an imaginary guardian angel she’s named My Jane Austen, boards a plane bound for a British festival, Literature Live, dedicated to combining Austen scholarship with Austen role-playing by fans known as Janeites.
| Read Full Review of My Jane Austen Summer: A Seas...After Lily Berry loses her mother, gets dumped by her boyfriend, and is fired, she finds in her passion for all things Jane Austen (Jane, indeed, is Lily's imaginary friend) an escape route: she travels to England to participate in a Jane Austen re-enacting festival.
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| Read Full Review of My Jane Austen Summer: A Seas...In “My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park,” author Cindy Jones opens a new door into Austen’s world.
May 14 2011 | Read Full Review of My Jane Austen Summer: A Seas...Between Jane Austen's own writing, the 50-something films based on them, and the endless books that have stemmed from her work, it's no surprise that another Austen-inspired novel has popped up.
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