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Just for Her: "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict"

PAULA ELKS

If you even like Jane Austen's novels a little, you will absolutely love "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict" by Laurie Viera Rigler. The book takes a modern-day Los Angeles woman back in time to the era of calling cards and chamber pots in 18th-century England.

Courtney, recovering from the recent betrayal of her ex-fiancé, awakes one morning to find herself in a bedchamber complete with a servant and an overbearing mother from another century. She finds that she is actually living the life of a wealthy upper-class woman of 30 during the late 1700s. Fortunately, she is well-versed about this time period because of her addiction to Jane Austen novels.

This story will hook you and keep you reading until the very end. Hooting with laughter at the differences in hygiene and the satire of social excesses, you will find yourself deeply involved in the confusing social circle of Courtney, aka Jane Mansfield.

I highly recommend this book to any who wonder what life would have been like in this bygone era. It even inspired me to pick up a Jane Austen title I hadn't read before.

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