Book Review: The Jane Austen Society

The Jane Austen Society
A Novel
by Natalie Jenner

St. Martin's Press

General Fiction (Adult) ,
Historical Fiction
Pub Date 26 May 2020


I am reviewing a copy of The Jane Austen Society through St. Martin's Press and Netgalley:




Immediately following the Second World War, a Unique but like minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable in the small English Village of Chawton.




A century and a half prior Clawton had been the final home of Jane Austen, and was now the home of a few of Jane Austen's distance relatives, and there diminishing estates.  With the threatening of the last of Jane Austen's legacies threatened, this group of disparate individuals come together to save the house, and what is left with legacies.  This group of people include a laborer,  a young widower, a doctor, and a movie star amongst others.   The group of people couldn't be more different, but they are United in there works, and words of Austen. 


Each member of the group endures there own quiet struggle with loss and trauma.  Some of this loss and trauma deal with the most recent world war, and others are from the past.


The Jane Austen Society is a powerfully moving novel  that deals with the big and small tragedies and triumphs in life, as well as exploring the humanity that is found in us.



I give The Jane Austen Society five out of five stars!


Happy Reading!