Find Wonder in All Things is a new, modern romance from award winning author Karen M. Cox, inspired by the classic Jane Austen story, Persuasion. This title won the Gold medal in Romance at the 2012 Independent Publisher's Book Awards.
Review
From Jakki Leatherberry at Leatherbound Reviews via GoodReads:
Karen M. Cox has another winner on her hands. She takes Austen's dynamic characters and brings them to life in a modern setting...
One does not need to have an Austen fetish to enjoy this story. It is a wonderful adaptation of the boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl trope.
5 out of 5 stars
From Austenesque Reviews:
What a magnificent modernization of Jane Austen's Persuasion!...
I felt a sense of unpredictability and novelty when reading this story, which isn't always the case in modern adaptations. Karen Cox's second Austenesque novel is most deserving of all the praise and accolades it receives.... I most emphatically recommend!
From Austenprose (Christina B):
Karen M. Cox's award winning novel, Find Wonder In All Things is a modern day homage to this Austen classic...one need not have read Persuasion beforehand to enjoy this novel...another lovely read!
From the Author
The creation of Find Wonder in All Things really began on a beautiful, summer morning. I was in the middle of re-reading Persuasion and mulling over the idea of writing a 20th century variation of my second favorite Jane Austen novel. My husband and I were out on our back deck, and I was pontificating about Wentworth and Anne's story. I can't remember for sure who asked whom, but one of us said, 'You know, you and I married young, but what would have happened if we had broken up?' What followed was a lively "What-if?" discussion that had us smiling, remembering and speculating.
Fast forward to October 2010, when my son asked me if I was going to do NaNoWriMo (the 'write a novel in a month' challenge from the Office of Letters and Light.) The Persuasion -based plot was still in my brain, and with it, the conversation I'd had with my husband. I was sitting in my kitchen, trying to conjure up a modern-day Anne Eliot - and she began to appear out of the mist of my mind's eye: tall, slender, reserved and ... sporting a head full of striking red hair! I asked her name, and she looked down, sort of embarrassed, and said, "Laurel - Mountain Laurel, actually. My dad named me after a wild flower."
"Really?" I said, giggling to myself. "I can just imagine what he's like."
And I was off.