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The Jane Austen Project

de Kathleen A. Flynn

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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and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.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 travelersâ??Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucaneâ??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 plantersâ??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But diagnosing Jane's fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie.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 nineteenth-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 pr… (més)

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Rachel and Liam have been sent back to 1815 with a mission: to prevent an unpublished Jane Austen manuscript from being destroyed. In 1815 England, they will pose as a brother and sister raised in Jamaica, now in London with money to spend. They will seek out contact with Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, and try to inveigle their way into an acquaintance with Jane from there. If they're successful, they might be able to add another Austen title to the canon -- and if they could prevent the destruction of Jane's letters to her sister, that would be another boon to Austen scholarship. Furthermore, Rachel, a doctor, hopes to learn something about the mysterious illness that will soon bring the author's life to an end. Can she save Jane Austen?

I enjoyed the bulk of this book, but I wasn't crazy about the ending. It fizzled out a bit. I also could have done without the romance -- I never felt that there was a whole lot of chemistry there. There's not a lot of heavy sci-fi here, so if you're in it for that aspect, this might not work for you -- but if you want Jane Austen as a character interacting with individuals from the future, that part of the story is solid. ( )
  foggidawn | Feb 6, 2024 |
This book is like the little girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead... When it's good, it's really good---but when it's bad, it's horrid.

I absolutely LOVE the idea of this story. The time-travel element, (always so hokey but so, so appealing!) Jane, England, excellent imagery; not to mention immediate kudos to the publishing team for a period-correct Regency style dress on the cover. The story made me think about the fact that we really have no right to be delving into the private lives of famous people just because they're now dead...it made me wonder if I should read the book on Jane Austen's letters that I just received in the mail. It also gave a really interesting take on Cassandra. I always saw her as much more kind than this story makes her to be, but her abruptness and coldness fits well with the notion that she was Jane's defender in many ways. In fact, besides getting the ending everyone wanted in the most anticlimactic way possible, the only thing that super bugged me about this story was Raunchy Rachel.

I think this was supposed to be the story of a woman who finally discovers the difference between lust and love? Rachel's views on sex really took away from a brilliant story---it seemed weirdly out of place and immature in an otherwise excellently written book. Too bad the author didn't take a lesson from Austen and write something romantic with a character who had self-respect and allowed us to respect her too. Rachel is so forward and gross that one wonders why decent and respectable men are declaring their "unworthiness" in her presence. I feel like she should be clomping around in manure-coated cowboy boots and spitting tobacco. Nothing is "lovely" or "dear" about this woman.

The ending dialogue was badly written. Please, I need an alternate reality where the last 10 pages of this novel are rewritten with the same quality as the first 370ish.
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  classyhomemaker | Dec 11, 2023 |
What a lovely read, reminded me of To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Of course it would, stories about people from our future travelling to Victorian England are perhaps rather niche.
I liked how this was filled with love for Jane Austen and her works. The author clearly read all her novels and everything she could find on Jane and wove it into something lovely and endearing.
Interesting take on time travel too! ( )
  Yggie | Oct 12, 2023 |
Loved this book! Very fun time travel adventure. ( )
  ajrenshaw99 | Sep 1, 2023 |
I loved the idea of this book. Jane Austen and time travel in the same book? What could be more awesome?
I did enjoy it, but not as much as I expected to. The more I got to know the narrator Rachel, the less I liked her, and the love story seemed to come out of nowhere. Still, for some reason, probably because I was drawn into the romance like a sucker, I was pulling for Rachel in the end. But I have to agree with other reviewers who have a problem with how abruptly it ended.
I liked the idea of new realities being created by time travel. I wouldn't have minded if she had spent a little more time on it. And I love that they saved Jane Austen.
Ultimately, a bit disappointing, but Austen fanatics still might want to check it out.
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  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

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 travelersâ??Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucaneâ??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 plantersâ??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 nineteenth-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 pr

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