This is a book that Bookgirl liked and recommended to me. I liked the book, but it took me a very, very long time to get through it. I was just doing other things.
In a way, it reminds me of the mini-series Lost in Austen that I just reviewed, but the reverse.
In the book, Fitzwilliam Darcy, a modern day man, has gone back in time thanks to buying a horse in England and jumping through a time warp. Then he comes back to modern times.
Eliza Knight buys an old vanity table and finds behind the mirror two letters. One is dated May 1810 to Jane Austen from F. Darcy. The other is unopened.
FD is interested in obtaining the letter. Eliza isn't sure if he is legit or not. Throughout the book, he tells the story of his meeting Jane Austen interspersed with modern day happenings.
Both he and Jane were in love -- or partially in love -- but it was a romance out of time. He couldn't stay and he wouldn't have asked her to come with him because she would have lost her place in literature.
A lot of the book was clever -- and it was a clever premise.
I just found it hard to get through. I do like the premise of time travel, so it wasn't that I couldn't suspend reality enough to enjoy it.
I really liked Lost in Austen, by comparison. I believe there is a book too -- but I'm not sure if it was written after the mini-series or if the mini-series was based on the book. So it's a bit like comparing apples to oranges. I might have loved the book TMWLJA if I could have read it through in one sitting.
Have you read it? I give it a 2.5. It's an interesting premise and fun to read, if you could get it from the library before you decided if you wanted to add it to your collection.
Karin
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