Because her obsession with Jane Austens Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women. Idealizing Mr. Darcy as her model of the perfect man, New Yorker Jane visits an Austen immersion fantasy camp in England and is astonished when her fantasies prove more plausible than she could have hoped, a situation that compels her to choose between her dreams and the real world. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Princess Academy. Original. Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Predjudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Janes fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own? The beloved novel set at a Jane Austen fantasy camp for women, from New York Times-bestselling author and Newbery Honor winner Shannon Hale.
