Austenland, Shannon Hale
Austenland, Shannon Hale
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Austenland
A Novel

Author: Shannon Hale

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2007

Synopsis

For every woman who's read Pride and Prejudice and sighed for Mr. Darcy: Austenland is a confection of a novel set at a Jane Austen fantasy camp for women, from New York Times–bestselling author and Newbery Honor Medalist Shannon Hale.

Jane is a young New York woman who never seems to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?

About Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is the Newbery Honor–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Academy series, The Books of Bayern, Book of a Thousand Days, Dangerous, and the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revengeand Calamity Jack, as well as the Ever After High and Princess in Black series, and the upcoming The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel. She also wrote three novels for adults, including Austenland, now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell. She and her husband, the author Dean Hale, have four children and live near Salt Lake City, Utah.

About Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 200 audiobooks and won four Audie Awards, three ALA Odyssey Honors, and eight AudioFile Earphones Awards. In 2011, Kellgren was named the  Best Voice in Young Adult & Fantasy, and she won the Audie award for Best Female Narrator in both 2013 and 2014.  Kellgren has also appeared onstage in London, New York and Frankfurt. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In naming Kellgren a “Golden Voice,” AudioFile magazine noted that she is a "marvel with accents...she is definitely a narrator to keep an ear out for." She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucy on February 27, 2008

I am a Pride and Prejudice snob. I only like the BBC version, with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett. While there are parts of the newer, shorter, harried, and nuance free Hollywood version I enjoy, like the supposed-to-be-prettiest-sister Jane, who is actually much pre......more

Goodreads review by Zoë on December 18, 2017

The movie is one of my favorites, so I was so excited to learn that it was based on a book! Unfortunately, this is one of the rare cases where I enjoy the movie more than the book. Movie Jane was a raging Austen fangirl and just a tad pitiful, which was totally relatable and made me root for her. Bo......more

Goodreads review by Melinda on May 22, 2008

I crept quietly up the dark stairway, entered my room and tried my very best to shut the door silently behind me. It thudded despite my best efforts and I cringed, but Phil didn’t stir in his 3 o’clock-in-the-morning slumber. I sighed, relieved. I felt so entirely sneaky. I felt as if I had cheated......more

Goodreads review by Anne on May 13, 2025

Cute. If you can distance yourself from the super weird premise. Jane is strange, no two ways about it. She apparently considers every guy she ever went on a date with (and one guy who just asked about her dog while they were getting mail) her ex-boyfriends. She has tumbled through life jumping the g......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on December 04, 2018

4+ stars for this Austen-inspired romantic comedy. Austenland has an irresistible premise for me: a vacation getaway in England for ladies who can’t get enough of Mr Darcy or other Jane Austen heroes and want to pretend to live in her world for a few weeks. Jane’s great-aunt becomes aware of her Dar......more

Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards: Best in Category
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