Book Review: Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge
Title: Jane of Austin Author: Hillary Manton Lodge Publisher: Waterbrook & Multnomah Release Date: June 13, 2017 Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Classic Retelling “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” ―Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Just a few years after their father’s business scandal shatters their lives, Jane and Celia Woodward find themselves forced out of their San Francisco tea shop. The last thing Jane wants is to leave their beloved shop on Valencia Street, but when Celia insists on a move to Austin, Texas, the sisters pack up their kid sister Margot and Jane’s tea plants, determined to start over yet again. But life in Austin isn’t all sweet tea and breakfast tacos. Their unusual living situation is challenging and unspoken words begin to fester between Jane and Celia. When Jane meets and falls for up-and-coming musician Se...