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Fantasy & SciFi
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.
London, 1815: Two travelers—Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane—arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters—a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren’t the first team from the future to “go back,” their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen’s circle via her favorite brother, Henry.
But diagnosing Jane’s fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile the woman she is with the proper lady nineteenth-century society expects her to be. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found it…however heartbreaking that may prove.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062674074
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 maj 2017
4
Fantasy & SciFi
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.
London, 1815: Two travelers—Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane—arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters—a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren’t the first team from the future to “go back,” their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen’s circle via her favorite brother, Henry.
But diagnosing Jane’s fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile the woman she is with the proper lady nineteenth-century society expects her to be. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found it…however heartbreaking that may prove.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062674074
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 maj 2017
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Anna
7 jan. 2022
Förvånansvärt bra! Kul för inbitna Jane Austen-fans!
E
17 maj 2020
Jobbig uppläsare: betonar allt på samma sätt, med en slags knarrig utandning på slutet av alla meningar, oavsett om det är frågor, svar, påståenden. Blir jobbigt att lyssna på i längden. Tyvärr.
Celie
30 jan. 2022
A bit strange and weird, using Austen to gain readers. Not the best but not the worst either, I guess.
Mona
25 maj 2023
Det började bra, men mitten och slutet lämnade en hel del att önska...
Elin
12 juni 2022
Skitbok
Philip
11 aug. 2022
Informative scifi. Plenty of details about the life of JA, relationship dramas and an interesting story.
Josefin
13 nov. 2023
Loved it! Didn’t want it to end so quickly!
Esaiah
17 juni 2021
Riktigt bra bok!
Elenne
13 sep. 2023
Även utan att vara ett väldigt stort Jane Austin fan hade jag stor behållning av berättelsen pga kombinationen av sci-fi och 1800-talets England. Jag tror jag hade tyckt om boken ännu mer med en annan uppläsare. Det var ibland svårt att hänga med i vem som sa vad och jag gillade inte hur mkt hennes röst påverkade hur jag kände för en del karaktärer.
Lina
21 okt. 2022
Lite lång även om plotten, uppläsningen och verkligheten var bra
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