Stories by: *Lauren Willig - Adriana Trigiani - Jo Beverley -
Alexandra Potter - Laurie Viera Rigler - Frank Delaney & Diane Meier -
Syrie James - Stephanie Barron - Amanda Grange - Pamela Aidan -
Elizabeth Aston - Carrie Bebris - Diana Birchall - Monica Fairview -
Janet Mullany - Jane Odiwe - Beth Pattillo - Myretta Robens - Jane
Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway - Maya Slater - Margaret C. Sullivan -
and Brenna Aubrey, the winner of a story contest hosted by the Republic
of Pemberley
*
"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how
ardently I admire and love you." If you just heaved a contented sigh at
Mr. Darcy's heartfelt words, then you, dear reader, are in good company.
Here is a delightful collection of never-before-published stories
inspired by Jane Austen--her novels, her life, her wit, her world.
In Lauren Willig's "A Night at Northanger," a young woman who doesn't
believe in ghosts meets a familiar specter at the infamous abbey; Jane
Odiwe's "Waiting" captures the exquisite uncertainty of Persuasion's
Wentworth and Anne as they await her family's approval of their
betrothal; Adriana Trigiani's "Love and Best Wishes, Aunt Jane" imagines
a modern-day Austen giving her niece advice upon her engagement; in
Diana Birchall's "Jane Austen's Cat," our beloved Jane tells her nieces
"cat tales" based on her novels; Laurie Viera Rigler's "Intolerable
Stupidity" finds Mr. Darcy bringing charges against all the writers of
Pride and Prejudice sequels, spin-offs, and retellings; in Janet
Mullany's "Jane Austen, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" a teacher at an all-girls
school invokes the Beatles to help her students understand Sense and
Sensibility; and in Jo Beverley's "Jane and the Mistletoe Kiss," a
widow doesn't believe she'll have a second chance at love . . . until a
Miss Austen suggests otherwise.
Regency or contemporary, romantic or fantastical, each of these
marvelous stories reaffirms the incomparable influence of one of
history's most cherished authors.
