These titles have sold in twenty-two territories and achieved worldwide sales of more than one million copies (making the bestseller charts in the UK, US, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Serbia). She really is not all that bright, for someone named Albright.Įventually, the parallels between her journey and her favorite novel become too obvious for even Emily to ignore and she realizes that what she wants most is right in front of her, in her own space-time continuum.Īrmchair Interviews says: Jane Austen would be proud.Alexandra Potter is the bestselling author of romantic comedy fiction novels in the UK, including Me and Mr Darcy. Darcy he’s sexist and then be surprised that he took offense. I didn’t believe someone as intelligent as Emily is supposed to be, would tell Mr. Right is from another era-one when a woman rode sidesaddle, and viewed flower arranging as an exciting pastime. All the competing elements make it hard to love this book.Įmily is an endearing heroine, but she keeps forgetting that her literary Mr. There are also some time travel/fantasy parts. Emily swears like a stevedore who hit his thumb with a hammer, making her a poster child for the postmodern generation. But it also follows the plot of Pride and Prejudice, the epitome of romance novels. It’s written in first person, present tense, with a sharp-tongued, savvy heroine and plenty of pop culture references, like a classic chick lit. Its biggest problem is deciding what it wants to be when it grows up. Darcy’s appeal, Emily begins to see that what she thought she wanted in a man, is maybe a little overrated. As she spends more time with Spike Hargreaves, a journalist interviewing women about Mr. Of course, the only man on the tour bus is a jerk, completely unlike Austen’s epitome of romantic heroes, Mr. A chance encounter at the bookstore that she manages, gives her the opportunity to take a literature lover’s tour through England, visiting Jane Austen and Pride & Prejudice sites. After a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides to stop looking for Mr.
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