Delivery included to New Zealand

The Jane Austen Book Club

Paperback (27 Jan 2005)

  • NZ$26.83
Add to basket

Includes delivery to New Zealand

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 72 hours

free Reserve & collect

Copies available at Blackwell's Oxford Broad Street

Reserve in Store |  Check stock elsewhere

Publisher's Synopsis

A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler.

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...

'If I could eat this novel, I would' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

'A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' Entertainment Weekly

'We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail On Sunday

About the Publisher

Penguin Books

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141020266
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 220g
Height: 195mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 20mm