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The cover for The Jane Austen Project caught my eye yesteray, and I was facinated with it and the prospect of a time travel historical ficiton. Personally, this is a cover that I just love. I mean I probably would have wanted to read the book just because of the story, but the wonderful cover is an extra bonus. Now I just wait to be approved!
The cover for The Jane Austen Project caught my eye yesteray, and I was facinated with it and the prospect of a time travel historical ficiton. Personally, this is a cover that I just love. I mean I probably would have wanted to read the book just because of the story, but the wonderful cover is an extra bonus. Now I just wait to be approved!
Description:
What would you give up so that she could live?
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel
London, 1815: Two travelers—Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane—arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters—a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren’t the first team from the future to “go back,” their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen’s circle via her favorite brother, Henry.
But diagnosing Jane’s fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile the woman she is with the proper lady nineteenth-century society expects her to be. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found it…however heartbreaking that may prove.
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Hi Magdalena, thanks for your kind words about the cover! I hope you will like the book too.
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Kathleen
You're welcome! This is one book that's high on my wishlist. Time travel and Jane Austen? Perfect!
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