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[MrsAshtonDennis]

If you read and enjoyed Paula Cohen's Jane Austen in Boca, the P&P storyline set in the Florida retirement community, I would recommend her next book Jane Austen in Scarsdale: or Love, Death and the SAT's. It is a quick and amusing diversion - this time it is the Persuasion storyline set in a fictional high school in Westchester. Anne is the school's guidance counselor dealing with parents who will do just about anything to get their kids into Ivy League schools. Her "Frederick" is a former travel agency employee turned successful travel guide author. As someone who works in a high school and as a parent who just went through the college selection & admission process with my firstborn I found it "spot on" in many cases and the Persuasion storyline is cleverly updated.

[Mags]

Well, howdy, stranger! Good to see you here.

I've heard good and not-so-good things about this book, but I would still like to read it. Thanks for the review! And don't be a stranger!

[MrsAshtonDennis]

Well thank ye ma'am fer your kind solicitations! Actually, I check in quite regularly but just haven't had anything to add to the conversation! Have your book on preorder and if I lived closer to Philly I would come to one of your book signings! The firstborn has chosen a PA college - she'll be attending Mansfield in the fall.

Cheers!
Michele

[Cyberlibrarian]

As I posted over at Austenblog, I preferred Boca to Scarsdale.  I just thought that, with the second book, she tried too hard.  I liked Scarsdale (it's still Persuasion, after all!) but I just didn't think it was as well done as Boca.