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Waiting on Wednesday: Seeking Mansfield

March 22, 2017 by Cassie Leave a Comment

Waiting on Wednesday: Seeking MansfieldSeeking Mansfield (Seeking Mansfield, #1) by Kate Watson
Published by Flux on May 16th 2017
Pages: 300
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Sixteen-year-old Finley Price has perfected two things: how to direct a world-class production, and how to fly way, way under the radar. The only person who ever seems to notice Finley is her best friend, the Bertram's son Oliver. If she could just take Oliver's constant encouragement to heart and step out of the shadows, she'd finally chase her dream of joining the prestigious Mansfield Theater.
When teen movie stars Emma and Harlan Crawford move next door to the Bertram's, they immediately set their sights on Oliver and his cunning sister, Juliette, shaking up Finley and Oliver's stable friendship. As Emma and Oliver grow closer, Harlan finds his attention shifting from Juliette to the quiet, enigmatic, and thoroughly unimpressed Finley. Out of boredom, Harlan decides to make her fall in love with him. Problem is, the harder he seeks to win her, the harder he falls for her.
But Finley doesn't want to be won, and she doesn't want to see Oliver with anyone else. To claim Oliver's heart—and keep her own—she'll have to find the courage to do what she fears most: step into the spotlight.

Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson is our latest Waiting on Wednesday.

I stumbled on this book while scrolling through Goodreads, and it could not be more up my alley. It’s a modernization of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, and they’ve made Fanny Price an aspiring theatre director. It kinda has me written all over it. I am excited to see my least favorite Austen novel modernized — I want to see a Fanny (or Finley in this case) come into her own. I want to see how they keep her shyness while still letting her be strong. And I definitely want to see how her ambitions to be a director factor into that. I’m excited for more modern Austen, and when you add theatre into the mix, I will be waiting not so patiently for May to get here!
  • Read an early review of Seeking Mansfield at Kirkus Reviews.
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