The Jane Austen Book Club
Published on 3. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-241-97359-2 (ISBN)
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...
Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.
Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-97359-2 (9780241973592)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the story collection Black Glass. She lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.