Austenland

Austenland

By Shannon Hale

Recommended for Adults.

Shannon Hale, author of the New York Times Bestseller and Newbery Honor Medal winning Young Adult novel, Princess Academy, has written an adult novel to tickle every Jane Austen fans’ fancy. Jane Hayes is a single 33-year-old graphic designer from New York City. She has a curious obsession of the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice staring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. Her elderly Aunt Carolyn discovers her hidden Pride and Prejudice DVD and decides to leave her a vacation to Pembrook Park (an English resort at which people can live out their Jane Austen era fantasies) in her will.

After Carolyn’s death, and Jane’s discovery of the nonrefundable vacation package, Jane decides to get Mr. Darcy out of her system for good. She sheds her twenty-first century garb to embark on a 3 week vacation to Pembrook Park as Miss Jane Erstwhile, of Regency Period England. Jane discovers life in Jane Austen’s era was filled with endless rules, stuffy social events, and very little romance. Will Jane ever give up on Mr. Darcy and find true love or is the fantasy better than reality?

One copy of Austenland is located in the Main Floor New Adult Fiction section of the Kewanee Public Library.

Submitted by Youth Services Dept. Head, Sara Darding