Scarsdale?

I was checking in on my Goodreads account and found out that the author of Jane Austen in Boca (a Pride & Prejudice read alike set in a Florida Jewish retirement community-I liked it alot) Paula Marantz Cohen has also written one called Jane Austen in Scarsdale. So of course I clicked over to my library website and click click click ordered it up. I've read it now and I think it was also very good.
This was I think the first Persuasion read alike that I have found. Persuasion is my current favorite JA. I have the Amanda Root Materpiece Theatre version on DVD, and often put it on in the background while I am doing school work- The quote on the box calls it 'a fairy tale for adults'. When the Captain says 'you pierce my soul' it gets me everytime...
So this new book was very welcome. A 34 year old HS guidance counsellor is thrown into company with a old flame that she split with because of family pressure. But I think the nice thing about Ms Cohen's books is that she is still finding a way to tell her own story. She doesn't just line characters up one by one and modernize them and re contextualize them, she somehow clearly echos JA while letting the characters be themselves. And even knowing the general idea of what is going to happen doesn't detract from the enjoyment oif the story ad it unfolds. Well done.
And Thanks GoodReads!