Their mission is to find their personal Misters Darcy. Before Julie knows what hit her, she and Ash are decked-out in 19th-century garb, smelling like mothballs, and crashing the local all-boys prep school formal dance.
Now it is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which just happens to be Julie's favorite book. Her best friend Ashleigh, on the other hand, is an "Enthusiast." As long as they have known each other, Ash has been obsessed with one thing or another.
3 told me it was really "fun.Julie is a quiet bookworm. Shulman writes with a eye to Austen with her use of capitalization and tongue-in-cheek humor. She is trying to keep some semblance of a relationship with her dad so she keeps her feelings to herself. Julie is like so many kids who are the victims of divorce. An only child, she lives with her mother and visits her father who left to marry the "IA" or Irresistable Accountant. Julie is torn between her interest in Parr and her friendship with Ashleigh. Darcy and she keeps trying to convinice Julie that Parr's friend, Ned, is Julie's Mr. Unfortunately, Ashleigh has decided Parr is her Mr. Parr is a really nice guy and Julie is smitten. Julie thinks of it as the "Snoot School Dork Dance" but they search out period dresses, learn to dance the quadrille and plan to get into the dance.Īt the dance Julie meets her "Mysterious Stranger," the boy she has seen around town, who is a student at the school. Darcy" she enlists Julie to help her crash a dance at the nearby private boys' school.
When she decides she wants to search for her "Mr. Ashleigh assumes the speech patterns, dress and mannerisms of Jane Austen's heroines and integrates them into her daily life. She is dismayed when her best friend, Ashleigh discovers the book and adopts it as her latest passion. I was intrigued by this book because of the story's opening premise: Julie's favorite book is Pride and Prejudice.
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