{"id":1038,"date":"2011-10-10T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:56:30","slug":"definitely-not-mr-darcy-by-karen-doornebos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Definitely not Mr. Darcy by Karen Doornebos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chloe Parker is thirty-nine, divorced,\u00a0owner of\u00a0a failing letterpress business, and a total Jane Austen fan.\u00a0 Desperate for cash to save her business and insure a good future for her daughter, Abigail, she applies\u00a0and is accepted for a position on what she thinks is a total immersion documentary about Jane Austen’s England.\u00a0 Imagine her suprise when she discovers that it is actually a period reality show, an 1812 version of The Bachelor.\u00a0 <\/em>This is outrageous!\u00a0 This is ridiculous!\u00a0 This is still $100,ooo on the line.\u00a0 And so, Chloe decides to give it her best shot\u00a0to win the heart of Mr. Sebastian Wrightman, a total hunk.\u00a0 She’ll just ignore the tender feelings she begins to have for his cousin, Henry, who is also on the show in a secondary position.\u00a0 In the process, she has to cope with nineteenth century hygiene or lack thereof, unpalatable food, and all the strict rules of society at that time.\u00a0\u00a0 Light and amusing, as well as informative about Victorian England.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chloe Parker is thirty-nine, divorced,\u00a0owner of\u00a0a failing letterpress business, and a total Jane Austen fan.\u00a0 Desperate for cash to save her business and insure a good future for her daughter, Abigail, she applies\u00a0and is accepted for a position on what she thinks is a total immersion documentary about Jane Austen’s England.\u00a0 Imagine her suprise when … Continue reading Definitely not Mr. Darcy by Karen Doornebos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}