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Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, was a national bestseller. A life member and regional webmaster of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

This eagerly anticipated sequel to "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict" asks the question, Can a 19th-century girl survive in today's morally confused modern-day world?

Publishers Weekly

This delightful sequel to Rigler's Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict has 19th-century Jane Mansfield switching bodies and milieus with contemporary L.A. girl Courtney Stone. As Jane grasps the idea that she's a different person in an unimaginable world, and grapples with the radically liberal social mores, dress and language, she leans on Jane Austen's novels as touchstones to reality. Kate Reading performs the first-person narration with a cultured tones and accent befitting an upper-class Regency-era young lady. Her skill as a versatile voice performer becomes evident as dialogue introduces modern American characters, and she skillfully modulates her accent, dialect and tones to accommodate them. The romantically suspenseful story and the entertaining vocal interpretation will keep romance listeners enthralled and amused. A Dutton hardcover. (Aug.)