![]() ![]() ![]() Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine. “When one has read the six great Austen novels, and been through the juvenilia and the letters, and then reread and then reread the six again, one’s only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Lily must summon her resources and confront painful truths before she is demoted to the role of secondary character in her own life. But even in England, where Lily is immersed in a literary festival so rich it seems Jane Austen is present, her problems find her. When the opportunity arises to travel to England to re-enact Mansfield Park, she thinks she may finally realize her dream of living in a novel. Lily is caught in a cycle of loss: her mother died of cancer, her boyfriend left her for an earth mother, and she’s been fired from her job for reading Jane Austen novels when she should have been routing payroll tax deposits. ![]()
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