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Jane Austen Ruined My Life

Title: Jane Austen Ruined My Life
Author: Beth Pattillo
Year First Published: 2009
Page Count: 288
Synopsis: English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are.

Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, Emma packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to England on a quest to find the missing letters of Jane Austen. Locating the elusive letters, however, isn't as straightforward as Emma hoped. The owner of the letters proves coy about her prize possessions, sending Emma on a series of Austen-related tasks that bring her closer and closer to the truth, but the sudden reappearance of Emma's first love makes everything more complicated.

In the end, Emma learns that doing the right thing has very little to do with other people's expectations and everything to do with her own beliefs. Laced with fictional excerpts from the missing letters, Jane Austen Ruined My Life is the story of a woman betrayed who uncovers the deeper meaning of loyalty.


Melissa
Profanity Violence Sexual Content
Characterization Plot Overall Rating
Fun book; quick read. Jane Austen fans will love the references to her life and books. The characters were a little too simple for my taste, but I'd still recommend it to any Austen fan.


Tags

Focus Personal Quest Main Character Academic/Professional
Focus Coming of Age Number of pages 300-400
Focus Male/Female Readability Easy
Focus Husband/Wife Setting Europe
Main Character Female Time Period Contemporary
Main Character Mid-life Type Self Discovery
Main Character Adult

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