For six months, five women and one man meet every month to discuss the next Jane Austen novel. Six books, six book club members, six months. While the book club exists, marriages are tested, romances begin, unsuccessful couples realize they are made for each other, and suddenly love happens. Or, perhaps, these are just plots for the next novels - but whose? Karen Joy Fowler? Jane Austen? Who can figure it out now? California, 21st century. It would seem, what does this classic of English literature have to do with it? But two centuries ago Austen wrote about the same thing. Two hundred years have passed. In The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler directly addressed the English writer, and in one novel intertwined the voices of two insightful and witty women, masters of brilliant social comedy. If Jane Austen lived in the 21st century, she would write like this.