What Would Jane Austen do? – review
I was kindly given an electronic copy of What Would Jane Austen do by Linda Corbett in exchange for an honest review*.
What Would Jane Austen do? book blurb
It’s a truth often acknowledged that when a Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly!
When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled she has no choice but to look outside of London’s rental market.
That is until she’s left an idyllic country home by the black sheep of the family, long-not-so-lost Cousin Nigel.
But of course there’s a stipulation… and not only is Maddy made chair of the committee for the annual village literary festival, she also has to put up with bestselling crime author –and romance sceptic – Cameron Massey as her new neighbour.
When Maddy challenges Cameron to write romantic fiction, which he claims is so easy to do, sparks fly both on and off the page…
My overall thoughts on What Would Jane Austen do?
I really enjoyed What Would Jane Austen do?
Main character Maddy Shaw is reeling after losing her agony aunt column, Dear Jane, which she wrote for a national magazine seemingly out of the blue.
She attends one last interview commitment as a guest alongside an extremely moody crime writer with an extremely simple view of romance.
And just when everything feels like it’s going wrong for Maddy and she fears she will have to leave the flat share with her best friend if she can’t secure another job fast she is contacted by a solicitor.
The solicitor tells her some unexpected news that she has been left a property with some stipulations by a long-lost relative, infamous Cousin Nigel.
With one of the stipulations being that she must live in the property for 365 days to inherit it fully, she packs up some belongings and moves into Meadowhall, a large house, fully intending to sell up and leave when the year ends.
But things don’t quite turn out that way.
Meadowhall sounds like an amazing house ripe for some TLC and being brought back to life.
The library is the room I would love to lose myself in!
I loved everything about this book, from the fantastically appropriate Jane Austen quotes that started each chapter to learning more about the lodger she ends up taking in to keep herself financially afloat.
I loved peeling the layers back on Luke the lodger.
Cousin Nigel is also a dark horse, revealing secret after secret from beyond the grave.
I really enjoyed the literary festival and getting to know members of the planning committee along the way.
The ghost hunting saga was hilarious.
And of course there’s sparks flying and possibly a happy ever after.
Many thanks to NetGalley, and Harper Collins, One More Chapter for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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