The first novel of Victoria Connelly’s Jane Austen trilogy was released in the US just this past month and the second will be following it out pretty speedily, when it comes out on 1st January 2012 (New Year’s Day!). It keeps the original title of Dreaming of Mr Darcy (doesn’t that make you dreamy?) (in the UK it was released as The Perfect Hero). I love the cover, the old-fashionedness of it works really well.

Fledgling illustrator and Darcy fanatic Kay Ashton settles in the seaside town of Lyme to finish her book, The Illustrated Mr. Darcy, when a film company arrives to make a new adaptation of Persuasion. Kay is soon falling for the handsome bad boy actor playing Captain Wentworth, but it’s the quiet screenwriter Adam Craig who has more in common with her beloved Mr. Darcy. Though still healing from a broken heart, Adam finds himself unexpectedly in love with Kay, but it will take more than good intentions to convince her that her real happy ending is with him.

Will you be buying the novel? Do you guys like Jane Austen inspired novels?

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