A Weekend with Mr Darcy: The perfect summer read for Austen addicts!

A Weekend with Mr Darcy: The perfect summer read for Austen addicts!
Victoria Connelly

A romance-filled page-turner for any Austen fanatic who’s ever dreamt of spending a weekend with Mr Darcy…Katherine Roberts is fed up with men. As a lecturer specialising in the works of Jane Austen, she knows that the ideal man only exists within the pages of Pride & Prejudice and that in real life there is no such thing. Determined to go it alone, she finds all the comfort she needs reading her guilty pleasure – regency romances from the pen of Lorna Warwick – with whom she has now struck up an intimate correspondence.Austen fanatic, Robyn Love, is blessed with a name full of romance, but her love life is far from perfect. Stuck in a rut with a bonehead boyfriend, Jace, and a job she can do with her eyes shut – her life has hit a dead end. Robyn would love to escape from it all but wouldn't know where to start.They both decide to attend the annual Jane Austen Conference at sumptuous Purley Hall, overseen by the actress and national treasure, Dame Pamela Harcourt. Robyn is hoping to escape from Jace for the weekend and indulge in her passion for all things Austen. Katherine is hoping that Lorna Warwick will be in attendance and is desperate to meet her new best friend in the flesh.But nothing goes according to plan and Robyn is aghast when Jace insists on accompanying her, whilst Katherine is disappointed to learn that Lorna won't be coming.However, an Austen weekend wouldn't be the same without a little intrigue, and Robyn and Katherine are about to get much more than they bargained for. Because where Jane Austen is concerned, romance is never very far away…

VICTORIA CONNELLY

A Weekend with Mr Darcy

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers in 2010

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Source ISBN: 9781847562258

Ebook Edition © August 2010 ISBN: 9780007373352

Version: 2017-06-08

Dedication (#ulink_c65cf0d6-f135-58e6-a9db-14e17cf878d8)

To my dear friend, Bridget, who discovered

Pride and Prejudice with me all those years ago!

Epigraph (#ulink_fa3d39bd-8872-5418-91ce-57fc3744a683)

‘She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow.’

Cassandra Austen of her sister, Jane.

Contents

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Title Page (#uac71750d-044d-5cf1-9525-25e98f3d2788)

Copyright (#u90a72026-f217-5c78-b194-d2af584281b5)

Dedication (#ubafc9ab4-af8e-5d25-8e60-aa20adb0fc1d)

Epigraph (#uac594dc4-e0e8-5c4d-aae5-107e468f4c3b)

Chapter One (#u2a21a37b-d07b-5e1b-9504-1173f73b7bd5)

Chapter Two (#uc81fa674-f83f-5b4e-9c37-32cf7d314e9a)

Chapter Three (#u47c3318a-b3bb-567a-80fb-de683b5e4967)

Chapter Four (#u4fe1c79a-7716-5601-9d42-e59e135dc1ff)

Chapter Five (#ua559ceac-e018-510f-8bec-f61c9f768f02)

Chapter Six (#ufc2d1b5c-0450-50e5-bfc2-8c59706de402)

Chapter Seven (#ubec21a52-3b33-54d0-9526-30c39860a15e)

Chapter Eight (#u0d2a1f01-9b6b-5c59-85e3-13d472afbe00)

Chapter Nine (#u35d7eeb2-f189-5dd0-8441-d4179c1ecc63)

Chapter Ten (#ub3eba27e-59f9-542d-9e20-2086e2ce7162)

Chapter Eleven (#uc64414a4-75c5-5663-bc0e-a952865ad145)

Chapter Twelve (#u817b09ab-8d0e-5986-84b4-86147acacdf8)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)