Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread (Jane Austen Takes the South)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476777535 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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“I love this excellent retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion. They were touching and believable and the characters were likeable--or hateable!” (Hope In Every Season) . I may even love it more than Persuasion It was refreshing to see romantic references that weren't contrived
While Lucy’s family still sees Jeremiah as trash, she sees something else in him—as do several of the other eligible ladies in town. Will he be able to forgive the past? Can she be persuaded to give love a chance this time around?. His family was redneck and proud, and Lucy was persuaded to dump him. Lucy and Jeremiah were high school sweethearts, but Jeremiah was from the wrong side of the tracks. Selling the family home may be the only option—until her Aunt Olympia floats the idea of using Crawford house to hold the local free medical clinic, which has just lost its space. But since Lucy’s mother passed away, the family home, a gorgeous antebellum mansion, has fallen into disrepair and the depth of her father’s debts is only starting to be understood. A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, featuring L
A homeschooling mother of six young children who rarely wear shoes, she's madly in love with a man who has never read Pride and Prejudice. . She can be reached on facebook at Pride, Prejudice and Cheese Grits or her regular author page of Virginia Carmichael. She holds degrees in religious studies and theoretical linguistics, and has a Jane Austen quote on the back of her van. Mary Jane Hathaway is the pen name of an award-nominated inspirational fiction writer who sp
Super Fabulous Read! Ms. Hathaway has done it again! Ms. Hathaway has done it again. She has taken a cherished Austen classic and turned it into a heartwarming, modern day romance that does not disappoint!Persuasion has never been my favorite Austen Novel, but this lovely retelling had me re-thinking my stand on this. I adore second chance romances. Lucy and Jem are so beautifully beli. "Fun book, great recipes" according to conniew. While I liked the other books of this series just slightly better (though I got sucked into this one as well) my favorite part turns out to be the blackberry cobbler recipe at the end. There was a juicy scene filled with tension in which the cobbler makes its bubbly appearance and I just had to try it. It's been a month and I've made. Contemporary Austen Shannon Collins This book dragged a little in comparison to the other 2 Hathaway Austen books I read. However, Persuasion, my favorite Austen book, moves more slowly than Pride or Emma (the 1st two in the series were based on these). She does a creditable job of updating the storylines and the books connect but don't depend on each other so they can