num_pages: 304
description: 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel!Just after the Second World War in the small English village of Chawton an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable.One hundred and fifty years ago Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These peoplea laborer a young widow the local doctor and a movie star among otherscould not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma some from the recent war others from more distant tragedies they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society.
language: English
title: The Jane Austen Society
publisher: St. Martin's Press