Book Recommendation: “Lost In Austen”

Posted at 5:01 pm by Laura, on July 2, 2012

Not a review, but a recommendation for Austen enthusiasts: Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by Emma Campbell Webster.

The journey begins in Pride and Prejudice but quickly takes off on a whimsical Austen adventure of the reader’s own creation. A series of choices leads the reader into the plots and romances of Austen’s other works. Choosing to walk home from Netherfield Hall means falling into Sense and Sensibility and the infatuating spell of Mr. Willoughby. Accepting an invitation to Bath leads to Northanger Abbey and the beguiling Henry Tilney. And just where will Emma‘s Mr. Knightley fit in to the quest for a worthy husband? It’s all up to the reader.

The point of the adventure is to marry well and happily. Took a while, as I died several times: falling on ice, smothered by pillows, committing a crime, and getting run over by a carriage…But eventually I married and prevailed!

Remember to play YOU. Not Lizzie Bennet. You will have more fun and adventures by taking the paths you would follow.

Author: Laura

Laura is a fangirl. A literary agent by day, a blogger by night. A recipient of an MA in Publishing. Happily attached to a book, ereader, and laptop. A tea devotee, musician, and book hoarder (so much so that she just might die from an overturned-and-heavily-loaded bookcase collapse).