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Monday Reads [12]

Posted May 18, 2020 by Christine in Monday Reads / 4 Comments /

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Monday Reads [12]


Monday Reads [12]
The Jane Austen Society Published by St. Martin's Press by Natalie Jenner
on May 26, 2020
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 320
Source: Publisher
Format: Paperback
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Also by this author: The Jane Austen Society, Bloomsbury Girls
Find the Book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

ISBN: 1250248736

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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…Dr. Gray stayed all night at the hospital, unable to sleep. He knew he could make sleep come soon enough, when he wanted it to. Right now he wanted to stand sentinel at the gates of hell and keep Adeline from falling through. She was so young, with so many years ahead of her. This did not have to be the end, for her, no matter what happened–he would do his absolute best to see to that. And with that notion, something inarticulate and grasping stirred inside him, the very essence of life.

The Jane Austen Society, page 93

 

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About Natalie Jenner

Natalie Jenner is the debut author of THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY, a fictional telling of the start of the society in the 1940s in the village of Chawton, where Austen wrote or revised her major works. Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in English Literature and Law and has worked for decades in the legal industry. She recently founded the independent bookstore Archetype Books in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs.

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