Austenland Preview

The next book we are getting our hands on is Austenland by Shannon Hale. This quick read is for the hopeless romantics. Published 2007, it soon became a movie by 2013. Anyone who is a Jane Austen fan, enthusiast or admirer, get ready to have your socks knocked off. Club members, read on and see why this cute book is worth the read. We will release the review in the next couple of days.

Goodreads Summary -

Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.

Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen;or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It's all a game, Jane knows. And yet the longer she stays, the more her insecurities seem to fall away, and the more she wonders: Is she about to kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?

Pages - 197

Genre - Adult Fiction / Romance

Austenland the Movie -

An important thing to note about Austenland, is that it became a movie production in 2013. Ultimately, the main character Jane Hayes is portrayed as having a Darcy fetish from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. With 30% rotten tomatoes, Keri Russell stars as Jane attempting to pursue Mr. Henry played by JJ Feild.