![]() ![]() The body vanishes, but resourceful Charlotte eventually finds it again and identifies the miscreant, even as flashbacks fill in the details of her failed marriage and her lifelong failure to stand up for herself. The agreeable pretend mystery set up for the guests turns disagreeably real when Charlotte stumbles on a body while playing Bloody Murder. ![]() Mallery, pleasingly smoldering, and she grows very fond of Eddie, who is playing her brother while paying suit to Miss Gardenside. Cordial”) finds her designated Romantic Interest, Mr. “Miss Charming” (the ladies all take Austenish sobriquets) has also been dumped by a cheating spouse “Miss Gardenside” is a recognizable 20-year-old pop star whose case of “consumption” masks the symptoms of drug withdrawal. Post-divorce, while the kids spend time with their father and his fiancée, Charlotte heads for Kent, where she finds a house full of male “eye candy” and other guests recovering from modern traumas. Husband James has taken up with another woman, leaving Charlotte’s self-confidence and self-esteem shattered despite the millions she’s made as the creator of a web-based landscaping business. ![]() ![]() In a sequel to her bestselling Austenland (2007, etc.), Hale sends another 21st-century American to play Regency heroine at Pembrook Park.Ĭharlotte Kinder could certainly use a vacation at the English estate that promises its female visitors the complete Jane Austen experience, right down to the corsets and attentive gentlemen (actors) to provide a chaste 19th-century romance during their two-week stay. ![]()
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