Jane Austen Book Club

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 ...nbsp;

lsquo;A luxuriant pleasure!nbsp; Karen Joy Fowler has written a novel which is rich and wonderful in all the ways I treasure.nbsp;Smart, funny, full of robust characters and a wry wit that is uniquely her own.nbsp; If I could eat this novel, I wouldrsquo;
Alice Sebold

lsquo;We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novelrsquo;
You magazine

lsquo;This wonderful novel shows how some books enter our bloodstreamrsquo;
Independent

lsquo;I laughed out loud four or five times in the course of the introduction alone #8230; a tour de forcersquo;
Sunday Telegraph

lsquo;Playful and grippingrsquo;
Eve

lsquo;Before you know it, yoursquo;re hooked - by the elegant prose, bitchy asides and whispery hint of more revelation to come.nbsp; Dangerously addictiversquo;
Elle

lsquo;Stylish, homely and deeply comfortingrsquo;
The Times

lsquo;Contains all the necessary ingredients for comfort reading #8230; very funnyrsquo;
Daily Telegraph

lsquo;A contemporary comedy of manners that Austen herself might have enjoyedrsquo;
Independent on Sunday

lsquo;The clever resonances brilliantly flesh out a homage to the Jane of Janes, a gentle satire on critical theory and an affectionate salute to the pitfalls and problems of romancersquo;
Sunday Times

lsquo;Very enjoyable, very Jane Austenrsquo;
Daily Mail

lsquo;Austen fans will find allusions galore, but the real fun comes from watching Fowler pay homage to Austenrsquo;s gift for depicting how people say one thing and mean another #8230; Itrsquo;s remarkable that Fowler squeezes such a nuanced evocation of reading into so tidy a novel #8230; Miss Austen would be proud.rsquo;
Scotland on Sunday

lsquo;I was enchanted.nbsp; A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix Irsquo;ve come across since Mark Haddonrsquo;s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timersquo;
Kate Long, author of The Bad Motherrsquo;s Handbook

Each of us has a private Austen.

Jocelyn's Austen wrote wonderful novels about love and courtship, but never married. The book club was Jocelyn's idea, and she handpicked the members. She had more ideas in one morning than the rest of us had in a week, and more energy, too. It was essential to reintroduce Austen into your life regularly, Jocelyn said, let her look around. We suspected a hidden agenda, but who would put Jane Austen to an evil purpose?

Bernadette's Austen was a comic genius. Her characters, her dialogue remained genuinely funny, not like Shakespeare's jokes, which amused you only because they were Shakespeare's and you owed him that.

Bernadette was our oldest member, just rounding the bend of sixty-seven. She'd recently announced that she was, officially, letting herself go. lsquo;I just don't look in the mirror anymore,rsquo; she'd told us. lsquo;I wish I'd thought of it years ago #8230;.

lsquo;Like a vampire,rsquo; she added, and when she put it that way, we wondered how it was that vampires always managed to look so dapper. It seemed that more of them should look like Bernadette.

Prudie had once seen Bernadette in the supermarket in her bedroom slippers, her hair sticking up from her forehead as if she hadn't even combed it. She was buying frozen edamame and capers and other items that couldn't have been imm

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