The Jane Austen Book Club (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Fowler, Karen Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786265876 ISBN 13: 9780786265879

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2004

Synopsis

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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Review:

If I could eat this novel, I would (Alice Sebold)

We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel (Mail On Sunday)

A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners (Entertainment Weekly)

From the Back Cover:

'We defy you not to all head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail on Sunday

In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and their relationships. Over the six months they meet marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and, under the guiding eye of Jane Austen, some of them even fall in love...

'Stylish, homely and deeply comforting' The Times

'Dangerously addictive' Elle

'Wonderful' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0786265876
• ISBN 13: 9780786265879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432