The funny thing is that my protagonist, Courtney Stone, simply popped into my head one day when I was standing in the kitchen doing something mundane. People always ask me how I came up with the idea for this book.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Will she ever get her real life back, and does she even want to? But when Courtney’s borrowed brain serves up memories that are not her own, the ultimate identity crisis ensues. Edgeworth, who may not be a familiar species of philanderer after all. There are journeys to Bath and London, balls in the Assembly Rooms, and the enigmatic Mr. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condom-less seducers, and marriages of convenience. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. Read Laurie Viera Rigler's posts on the Penguin Blog.Īfter nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England.

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