Lost in Austen Reviews

If you loved 'Pride and Prejudice', or even the excellent BBC mini-series based on it, 'Lost in Austen' will very likely appeal to you as well. The story uses the familiar 'hidden door to another world' plot device to place our contemporary heroine into a Victorian world inhabited by the characters of Jane Austen's book, taking the place of Elizabeth Bennett, who is transported into the real world.

Our heroine, Amanda Price then proceeds to raise hell in Austen's world in her attempts to keep the story on track. It is fun to see Austen's serious world being rocked by the unconventional Amanda as well as watching the original story go so completely off the rails. Characters are played around with and morphed and eventually it's not Austen's story anymore, despite the strenuous attempts of Amanda to keep it on track. While the story doesn't exactly break all the conventions of a romantic comedy, it still breaks enough of them to give it charm.

Be warned, unless you know the original story pretty well, you'll not derive any of the humour that comes from toying with it. However, if you have read the book or even the aforementioned mini-series, this could be right up your alley.