Reviews

 

CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT won a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award and was nominated for a Regency World Award for Best New Fiction.
RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Mainstream Fiction.
Peeking Between the Pages named RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT one of its 10 Favorite Books of 2009 AND the author as one of its five favorite authors.
Historical-Fiction.com named RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT as the "MOST ENTERTAINING" book of 2009.
Austenprose named RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT its #1 Austenesque book of 2009.
Living Read Girl named RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT as one of the best books of 2009.

Here are selected reviews of RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, and the web series inspired by the novels, SEX AND THE AUSTEN GIRL. (For more reviews, click on the title of the book on the menu bar above).

 

In Style

Culture Club
Don’t miss out: our hot list for your leisure pleasure
(includes review of Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict)

FILM
Man du jour James Franco excels as Allen Ginsberg in biopic Howl, focising on the obscenity trial of his legendary poem; Emily Blunt teams up with Matt Damon in romantic thriller The Adjustment Bureau; and sit back for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new sci-fi comedy about adorable alien Paul(Seth Rogen).
TV
Claire Foy (of Little Dorrit fame) stars as an 18-year-old retracing the steps of her grandfather across Israel in The Promise (Channel 4).
MUSIC
Liam Gallagher’s new band Beady Eye’s debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding (Beady Eye Records) is a mix of Beatles-style tunes spliced with his moody vocals.
BOOKS
Laurie Viera Rigler’s Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict (Bloomsbury, ₤7.99) sees a 19th-century Jane in present-day L.A. Expect plenty of modern Mr Darcys and romantic entanglements.”

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