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Plume
May 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Featuring: Courtney Stone
304 pages
ISBN: 0452289726
EAN: 9780452289727
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
In this Jane
Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of
identity and
destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in
Austen's time.
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 own body, but inside the
bedchamber of a
woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like
herself could
concoct such a fantasy?
Not only is Courtney stuck
in another
woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that
woman; and
despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even
the most
astute observer. But not even her love of Jane Austen has
prepared
Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of
nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being
a single
woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless
seducers,
and marriages of convenience. Enter the enigmatic Mr.
Edgeworth, who
fills Courtney's borrowed brain with confusing memories that are
clearly not her own.
Try as she might to control
her mind and
find a way home, Courtney cannot deny that she is becoming
this other
woman-and being this other woman is not without its advantages:
Especially in a looking-glass Austen world. Especially with
a suitor
who may not turn out to be a familiar species of philanderer
after all.
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