In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and their relationships. Over the six month they meet marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements becone suitable, and under the guiding eye of Jane Austen, some of them even fall in love ...
Karen Joy Fowler is the Man Booker shortlisted, bestselling 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 is a a PEN/Faulkner Prize finalist and lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.
