
The Jane Austen Project
A Novel
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Saskia Maarleveld
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.
London, 1815: Two travelers - Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane - arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters - a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren't the first team from the future to "go back", their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen's circle via her favorite brother, Henry.
But diagnosing Jane's fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile the woman she is with the proper lady 19th-century society expects her to be. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found it...however heartbreaking that may prove.
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In the feeling of Jodi Taylor's St Mary's series and the All Souls trilogy from Deborah Harkness, Kathleen A Flynn brings us a sweet, rich time travelling tale. Rachel, a humanitarian physician, and Liam, an actor-scholar, travel back to 1815 to save Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra and possibly bring back her manuscript for a lost novel.The story is a love letter to Austen -- the author's passion for Austen and her times helps bring the era to life. And I'm hoping for a sequel -- will Rachel and Liam return to the 19th century to explore the mystery surrounding the Bronte sisters? I certainly hope so.
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I also thought the narrator, Saskia Maarleveld, was generally quite good, switching easily between American and British English accents, but she needs to be better educated to avoid pronunciation errors such as the total failure to pronounce Anthony Trollope‘ s name correctly. There were others, but that was really indicative of a lack of knowledge of English literary history. Given the subject of this novel, that should be something directors/editors listen for.
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I’m a Jane Austen fan through and through (seriously named my daughter Austen after her). And I adored the concept of this Jane inspired book and that it combined the regency era with time travel and the future.
The author did a great job bringing Jane’s character alive. And I really enjoyed the main character too. I loved their challenges in infiltrating in and acclimating to proper English Regency life.
Here is where I drop some spoilers. So stop here if you must. I did not adore the main character Rachel/Mary falling in love with her colleague. I feel as if when drawing up his character the author was going for a Lizzie Bennet and Mr Darcy romance..... but he was no Darcy and she though lovely and interesting no Lizzie. It seemed forced. His character seemed flat to me. But then again maybe it was something with the way he was portrayed in the audible reading and I’d have felt different had I actually read the book myself.
I was actually rooting for Rachel/Mary to be with Henry and stay in regency England. Alas even though I wasn’t in love with the romance of the novel I did enjoy the escape and the writing.
The book eludes to a “bronte project” at the end which makes me wonder if it’s a possible follow up book to be seen by the author in the future. If so I’d still happily read it as well.
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