The Jane Austen Society

Library Edition

by Natalie Jenner, Armitage, Richard

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Published July 1, 2020 by Macmillan Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-78727-9

(5 reviews)

Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society.

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2 stars

During the second half of the story I skimmed a lot more than reading closely because I just couldn't care less about the characters.

In the author's note, Jenner then says that the whole story is fictional and hardly based on historic events at all. I had expected some artistic freedom in the novel.. but it being completely made up? What's the point?

I'm very disappointed.

TW: sexual assault, death of a child/stillborn