The Jane Austen Book Club

Type

Book

Authors

Karen Joy Fowler

ISBN 10

0965508544

ISBN 13

9780141020266

Tags

Contemporary Women, Contemporary, Literary

Description

A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler.Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love...'If I could eat this novel, I would' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones'A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' Entertainment Weekly'We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail On Sunday - from Amzon

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