What a diverting read! The Jane Austen Project (#651) by Kathleen Flynn combines several of my favorite genres into an entertaining novel. Jane Austen tribute? Check. The author, Kathleen Flynn is an editor at the Ne York Times, and a life member of the Jane Austen Society. Time travel? That's the whole point of the plot; in a future that has undergone drastic changes from our world, a secret team is assembled and trained to be able to successfully blend in when sent back to England in 1815. Their mission? To retrieve letters written to and by Jane Austen destroyed by her sister Cassandra after Jane's untimely death. But paramount to their mission is retrieving the entire manuscript of Jane Austen's unpublished novel, The Watsons. Key to their assignment, Dr. Rachel Katzman, an emergency medicine physician, and Liam Finucane, an expert on Beau Brummel, is that they do nothing to change history during their year-long stay..
Needless to say, things do not go as planned! Rachel and Liam, posing as the Ravenswood siblings, do manage to meet and be taken up by Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, but becoming intimate with the Austen family generates unexpected consequences and dangers. As they say, "Be careful what you wish for!"
If you are a Jane Austen fan, don't miss The Jane Austen Project. What if she could be cured...?
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