The Jane Austen Book Club

by KarenJoyFowler (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $4.28

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.22

  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?

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.22

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $12.76

  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).