Courtney Stone, a single Los Angeles woman recovering from the double whammy of a broken engagement and a failed friendship, wakes up after a night of self-medicating with her 'drug of choice,' Jane Austen novels, to find herself in 1813 England.

Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to?Īclever time-travel setup functions as the prime attraction for this breezy debut novel. But when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. 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. 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. 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.

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