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..."I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix I've come across since Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"" - Kate Long, author of "The Bad Mother's Handbook".
language: English
title: Jane Austen Book Club
titlecomplete: 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: Penguin