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# Jane in Love: A Novel Paperback – October 27, 2020

**Brand:** rachel givney
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## Customer Reviews

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    Love or Art?
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2020*

Jane Austen, jilted by a would-be suitor at the age of 28 and in search of true love, time-travels with the help of a mysterious witch from 1803 to 2020, where she meets up with Sophia, a movie star who's approaching the end of her shelf life as a beauty (I think she is 37), losing her husband to a younger actress while playing Mrs. Allen to the younger actress's Catherine in an adaptation of Northanger Abbey being shot, naturally, in Bath. Sophia has a brother who's working as an extra on the set, and when we learn his name is Frederick Wentworth, it's pretty clear where this might be going. But when Jane and Fred start to fall in love, Austen's books begin to crumble into dust, to disappear from not only libraries and bookshelves, but from the memory of librarians and booksellers. The only people immune to this loss, apparently, are those who have met Jane Austen in person in 2020: Sophia, Fred, and a certain helpful librarian. The books are vanishing because a Jane Austen who lived happily in the 21st century obviously never wrote them.What worked best for me here was the wonder and terror Jane Austen felt at finding herself in 2020 Bath, as well as some of the fun we have along the way. For example, how to overcome the hurdle of making people in 2020 believe you are truly from 1803 and not a lunatic, how to find safety in this strange world? Givney cleverly has Sophia, who's at a dangerous and vulnerable moment in her career, believe she is being tricked for some kind of reality show, that this "Jane Austen" has been sent to make her look foolish and everything is secretly being filmed. She resolves to thwart the people behind this scheme by acting as if everything is perfectly normal. Thus she spends enough time in the company of Jane Austen that by the time she realizes what's actually happening, she is prepared to believe it (though not, obviously, without difficulty).Jane Austen, as we might expect, is quick-witted and fascinated by the world she finds herself in. Watching her learn about electricity, self-inking pens, supermarkets, the shockingly low prices of sugar, gay marriage and much more is one of the chief pleasures of this amusing book. Although my favorite moment may be when she finds herself reading her own work. "Pride and Prejudice" she recognizes, of course, but "Mansfield Park" is completely new to her.This was a very interesting read for me because it uses the improbable device of time travel to raise many of the same questions I asked myself in the writing of my own novel The Jane Austen Project, questions somehow connected to Austen's immortality as a writer. What is it about her work that endures, when her world and ours are so different in many profound ways? Why do we feel such a kinship with this long-dead woman, why do we want to claim her?It's also written in a witty style that channels Austen's own, though the ultimate question it seems to pose is very different from those in her novels. It seems to be asking, is it better to be a great artist or to be personally happy? But this offended me, because it seems to me a false dilemma and moreover one would never be asked about a male writer. Maybe because the answer is so obvious for a man, that fame trumps domestic happiness? As its title hints, this novel is a nod to that great film of 25 years back, "Shakespeare in Love." In it, Shakespeare loses the love of his life but gains in return the inspiration to write his genius plays. As I recall, the possibility that this was the worse path is never seriously explored. Sure, it's sad, but, Shakespeare. Disappointment in love was just part of the journey to becoming Shakespeare, the real story being his genius.I think the real story with Austen is also her genius; the fact that she was always writing about love throws people off the trail of this crucial fact. Jane in Love is a very entertaining example of this misdirection, however.

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    Sad and Sweet
  

*by S***4 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023*

I’m not usually a fan of time travel stories but this was cute with a bittersweet ending. I thought it was a sweet nod to her last book written.

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    sparkling!
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2023*

I thought it quite routine when it was about time travel, but it became about Jane- I couldn’t wait to read every word!

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