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The evolution of the characters is smooth and steady, the challenges facing them serious but do-able.

Even someone like me, who hasn’t studied Austen’s books, understands that the challenges facing these eight are a more modern version of elements in her books. This one is brilliantly crafted, weaving together the lives of eight people in the most intriguing of ways. THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY is not to be confused with other books (even a movie) of similar titles. It is a standalone novel about a group of people in the 1940’s, who find themselves drawn together by their love of Austen to create a museum to honor the author in Chawton, the small town in Southeast England where Austen wrote. You don’t even have to have read Jane Austen to love this book. You don’t have to be a fan of Jane Austen to love this book.