I started reading this book after a friend recommended it. I have a goal of eventually reading all of Jane Austen's novels, and I thought a modern take on her stories could be interesting and funny. I was right :) I really enjoyed this book. It was about a women around the age of 40 who has spent her life in the background working in the shadows of other women who have fullfilled their dream of marrige and kids. When she looses everything, she is offered the opportunity to write an article for the modern girl, on how to land a rich husband. Upset and confused about where her life is going she takes the challange very seriously and sets out to find herself a rich husband. Kate tries to use all that she has learned for reading Austen, and apply it to today's world.
The book is full of women all at different points in their life. There is an older women right out of one of several relationships with rich men, who acts as an advisor to Kate, then there is the young beatuful women who uses her beauty and innocence to attach herself to a rich man, and a married women who has lost all her money, but still has love.
This book focuses alot on the relationship between love and money. Is it acceptable to give up on love in order for the comfort of money? Or is it possible to have both. Kate has to learn this lesson, and the best way to learn it is through experience. So we travel with her from California to Europe, while she risks her friendships, her job, and her savings to find the security that she is blindly searching for.
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