Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict Series)
by By Rigler, Laurie Viera
Category: Fiction , Women

Read Laurie Viera Rigler's posts on the Penguin Blog.    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 level of Austen   mania   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, condom-less seducers, and marriages   of   convenience.     This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in   the   Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. But   when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Will   she   ever get her real life back, and does she even want to?