All Roads Lead to Austen · A Year-long Journey with Jane

"An illuminating insight...fascinating."--Amanda Grange, bestselling author of *Mr. Darcy's Diary*

"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world--and her characters--are very much alive."--Michael Thomas Ford, author of *Jane Bites Back*

**WHERE DO BOOKS TAKE YOU?**

With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels *en espanol* , Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a yearlong Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends-- taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians-- to read *Emma* , *Sense and Sensibility* , and *Pride and Prejudice*.

Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we're not always speaking the same language-- even when we're speaking the same language.

But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she'd found her own Senor Darcy.

*All Roads Lead to Austen* celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book-- with good friends.