Books for Anglophiles

This week’s book selections will please those Anglophiles out there as well as fans of Jane Austen.  We hope you will visit the Strongsville Branch Library to satisfy your need for a taste of England, and to check-out these three new books.  Happy Reading!                                                                               

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy By Helen Fielding, October 2013 , 336 pages.

Bridget Jones makes a triumphant return! After not hearing from her in fourteen years, fans are going to be thrilled to go along with Bridget as she navigates the unpredictable road we call life.  Set in present day, Bridget is now a single mom and she’s still asking all the hilarious questions we have come to expect from her. For example, “Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?”  If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading Bridget, now is the perfect time to become acquainted.  

Longbourn By Jo Baker, October 2013, 304 pages.

Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will take great delight with this new novel about the “downstairs” staff of the Bennet household.  Sarah is the orphaned housemaid that spends her days scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots and doing the laundry.  A new footman arrives and it changes everything.  Just as the “upstairs” experienced romance, heartbreak, and intrigue, the “downstairs” has its own story to tell.  This book is a whole new way to look at Pride and Prejudice and how there’s always more than one story to tell.  

Sense and Sensibility By Joanna Trollope, October 2013, 384 pages.

Best-selling British author Joanna Trollope’s modern remake of Sense and Sensibility is the first book released of the Austen Project which will see all of the Jane Austen's six novels re-written in contemporary style by six well-known authors.  This delightful rendition pays homage to the original but still moves the story forward and makes it relevant to today’s audience.  Recommended for Jane Austen fans and modern romance readers as well.

Reviews brought to you each week by Librarians – Jennifer Niederhausen, Dona Stein, & Heather Timko
Adult Services Division
Strongsville Branch Library