Experience a new paperback copy of The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell as featured in our October 2025 "Austen Off-Script" adult box. About the Book Two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation accidentally travel back in time to the Regency Era in this delightfully clever and riotously funny debut Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but it’s also her last chance to prove herself as a s