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In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels.  Over the next six months as they get together marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens . . .  

Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through The Jane Austen Book Club, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.

“Karen Joy Fowler creates a novel that is so winning, so touching, so delicately, slyly witty that admirers of Persuasion and Emma will simply sigh with happiness." -- The Washington Post Book World