The Jane Austen book club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Quite a light read, which the links to Austen's works didn't really add to. It gave the novel a bit of a framework, but the main story was really the relationships between, and past history of, the reading group.
Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her finely sighted eye for the frailties of human behavior and her finely tuned ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.
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