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...
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon, a PEN/ Faulkner Prize finalist, Sarah Canary, Jane Austen Book Club, and the story collection Black Glass. She lives in Davis, California.
