Jane Austen

I was browsing my local public library's charity bookshop- they take in donations and sell them in their little space for great prices- and I found yet another Jane Austen read alike. Of course I bought it as most books are $1 and children's paperbacks are 25cents. I am a sucker for anything related to Jane Austen, and will read it all, even though I end up not recommending most of them. This one was called Pride, Prejudice & Jasmin Field. It was written by a young woman in London, which I also am all for. It was a good read, and since I wanted a "day off" from being in charge of family stuff I just went to my room and read the whole thing.
This one was a P&P story with the people in it also acting in a P&P play. I read one something like that before, but was dismayed to find the author gave her characters NO insight into the parallels they were living. Here was much better, many times these folks were laughing at themselves. The story was good in and of itself, but I get a little distracted with this type of book trying to figure out as each person is introduced- is she Charlotte Lucas, ohh is this going to be Lydia...? etc I am glad about the changes in the Lydia character, but found it confusing that the Mom and Dad were called by their first names. I may read this one again, as the twists of the story got a little hard to keep up with, and I tend to read faster and faster to the ending of any novel, so I might have missed some things. But it was pretty good if you like single girl with good sense, career and hopes kind of stuff.