Charlotte Kinder is a middle-aged woman with a successful online business, two kids, an ex-husband, and no idea what went wrong with her perfect life. In an effort to raise her spirits, she rediscovers the novels of Jane Austen, and then she discovers something even better: a two-week immersive Austen experience at the historic English estate Pembrook Park.Midnight in Austenland is a fun crossover novel, part romance, part mystery. Something isn't right at Pembrook Park, and it's not just the bland food, the uncomfortable costumes Charlotte finds herself wearing, or the actors hired to play the handsome and doting gentlemen who must end every Austen experience with a (fake) proposal of marriage. A game of murder goes a little far, and Charlotte thinks she's found a real body in a hidden room upstairs. But was it any more real than the roles that the actors play? And which one of those actors might be the killer? Even more dangerous, is Charlotte falling for one of them - for real?
Midnight in Austenland is the sequel to Shannon Hale's Austenland, which features a different visitor to Pembrook Park but no mystery. Both books make an entertaining read for Jane Austen fans, or anyone who thinks it might be fun to dress up in historical costume - as long as they don't have to leave their modern selves too far behind. - Michelle (Sunset)
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