Laurie Viera Rigler's Books
Jun.25.2009
When Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, awakens one morning in twenty-first-century L.A.—in the body of someone named Courtney Stone—culture shock and chaos ensue.
Jane must quickly find her way in a world in which everyone thinks she is Courtney: a dizzying world of horseless carriages, unrestricted clothing, and unheard-of liberties for womankind. And...
Mar.16.2009
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. She senses that she would have found soul mates in Emma and Elinor, and through good times and bad S&S and P&P have been her secret under-the-duvet pleasures. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza,...
May.01.2008
After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?
Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually...
Highly diverting.”
—The Guardian
About Laurie
Laurie is the author of the novels CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT and RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT. Having spent several years writing her first novel and reading all those proclamations about how aspiring novelists were more likely to win...
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Smile Train
First Book
Reading For Kids
Camel Book Drive
National Resources Defense Council