by Beth Patillo
Hennepin County Library paperback 270 pages
genre: contemporary fiction
I can't in good conscience call this a "romance," though main character Emma is most definitely a romantic person!
Since I'm blogging quite a few weeks after having actually read this book, here's what I grabbed off Amazon: "English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are.Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, Emma packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to England on a quest to find the missing letters of Jane Austen. Locating the elusive letters, however, isn't as straightforward as Emma hoped. The owner of the letters proves coy about her prize possessions, sending Emma on a series of Austen-related tasks that bring her closer and closer to the truth, but the sudden reappearance of Emma's first love makes everything more complicated."
I liked it a lot. Jodi Prip recommended it to me. Emma, Adam, Mrs. Parrot, Edward, and of course, Jane Austen's "secret" letters made this a wonderful book for someone who enjoys Austen's work. In fact, this made me want to re-read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. It also made me curious to know more about Austen and her family, especially sister Cassandra.
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