Readers also discover how literature can bind us together. She shows us how everyone was affected by the war, but that people were resilient.

In The Jane Austen Society, Jenner gives us a peek into post-war England. What follows is a story of love and betrayal, and how friendship is what sees us through. The Society is a lifeline for each of them, and it helps them all be braver than they ever thought possible. So when he learns that others, too, have a love for Jane Austen, he proposes starting the Jane Austen Society, a group that can purchase the cottage where she lived and create a place for people to share their love for her books.Īs the Jane Austen Society begins to meet, they discover pieces about themselves that they didnt know, and they begin to help each other heal. For Adam, reading Jane Austen is a way to escape his grief. Adam Berwick is a farmer without a farm a quiet man who has experienced a lot of loss in his life. Knight, simply want them to go away.Įach character in this story is broken in some way. Some of the townspeople welcome those tourists. Its where tourists come to see anything they can about Jane Austen. Its where her brother was adopted into the Knight family and inherited the house. They live in Chawton, a small town in Hampshire, which is where Jane Austen wrote her last three books. But as you dive deeper into the story, there is one thing that binds them together: a love for Jane Austen. On the surface, the characters in author Natalie Jenners The Jane Austin Society have nothing in common.

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