num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Jane Austen Book Club
titlecomplete: The Jane Austen Book Club
characters: Sylvia, Allegra, Bernadette, Grigg, Prudie, Jocelyn
genres: Fiction, Books About Books, Book Club, Modern, Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 69390
places: Davis, California
publisher: Plume/ Penguin Group