Though theres a laugh on nearly every page-Hale, like Austen, is adept at subtly skewering the ridiculous-theres also the more serious story of a woman learning the difference between fantasy and reality, and discovering that real life can be better than your dreams. Hales charming first book for adults is chick lit with soul. Houston Chronicle Allow me to direct you to the best Austen tribute since Karen Joy Fowlers The Jane Austen Book Club: Shannon Hales clever and imaginative Austenland.

Austenland offers hope that after years of fruitless searching for a companion, just when youre ready to give up on love, it will find you on its own.

Stephenie Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of the TWILIGHT series An utterly enjoyable tribute. Glamour Adorable! This is the best tribute to obsessed Austen freaks (like me) that Ive ever read. Review Quotes Funny, moving, and a real surprise. But when its time to bid Austenland goodbye, can Jane really leave her fantasies-and the two men whove played into them-behind? In this addictive, charming, and entirely delightful story, Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us. Dressed in empire waist gowns and torn between a sexy gardener and an actor playing the brooding Darcy role, Jane finds herself mastering the rules of etiquette and of the resorts flirtatious games. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort for Austen fanatics, Janes fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly be realer than she ever could have imagined. Darcy from Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice. Jane Hayes is a young New Yorker with a real romantic problem: no man she meets can compare to her one true love-Mr. Now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell and produced by Stephenie Meyer. Book Synopsis For readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a gloriously satisfying (Glamour) romantic comedy set at a Jane Austen fantasy resort from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. Darcy comes a confection of a book from New York Times-bestselling author Hale. About the Book For every woman who has read Pride and Prejudice and sighed for Mr.

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