Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in Californias Central Valley to discuss Jane Austens 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... I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix Ive come across since Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Kate Long, author of The Bad Mothers Handbook.