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THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY

by Natalie Jenner ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2020

Readers will root for these characters, wishing them Austen-worthy happy endings.

In the insular post-World War Two gloom of an English village, seven damaged people soldier on, heartened only by their shared enthusiasm for Jane Austen.

Chawton, the village at the heart of this story, contains the small cottage Austen occupied before her death, and it's also a cauldron of repressed longing and regret worthy of a Victorian novel. James Knight, dying heir of the Knight estate, owns the cottage as well as a stately manor house. The embittered James has altered his will: Upon his death, his only child and caregiver, Frances, a reclusive spinster of 47, will be dispossessed and the estate entailed to the closest male relative. Frances and her father’s lawyer, Andrew, were once in love, but James forced them apart. Adeline, a former schoolteacher, is pregnant and widowed—her husband died in combat in the war’s closing days. Her physician, Dr. Gray, a widower who blames himself for his wife’s accidental death, is too guilt-ridden to act on his attraction to Adeline. After she loses the baby, her Pride and Prejudice –style bantering with Dr. Gray gives way to distrust, and each flirts with morphine addiction. “Sad, silent” Adam, who farms the estate, was introduced to Austen by a visiting American fan, Mimi, a Hollywood star, who, at 35, is about to be put out to pasture by a lecherous studio boss. Evie, compelled by circumstance to forego scholarly ambitions, is a housemaid for the Knights. She’s been secretly cataloging every book in the manor’s vast library and has discovered some potentially priceless Jane Austen artifacts. These lost souls, who have been misjudged by society and/or misjudge themselves, find healing through forming the titular society to preserve the cottage as a museum—as its real-life counterpart is today. More than a passing familiarity with Austen’s work may be a prerequisite to fully appreciating this book—Austen’s characters often seem more real to Jenner’s characters than their own relatives and neighbors. But, thanks to Jenner’s psychologically astute portrayals, the society founders themselves are very real and thoroughly sympathetic.

Pub Date: May 26, 2020

ISBN: 978-1-250-24873-2

Page Count: 320

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: March 1, 2020

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2020

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When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death. Still, it’s a surprise when the fateful doorbell rings less than 20 pages later. His death inspires his sister to enlist as an Army nurse, and this turn of events is just the beginning of a roller coaster of a plot that’s impressive and engrossing if at times a bit formulaic. Hannah renders the experiences of the young women who served in Vietnam in all-encompassing detail. The first half of the book, set in gore-drenched hospital wards, mildewed dorm rooms, and boozy officers’ clubs, is an exciting read, tracking the transformation of virginal, uptight Frankie into a crack surgical nurse and woman of the world. Her tensely platonic romance with a married surgeon ends when his broken, unbreathing body is airlifted out by helicopter; she throws her pent-up passion into a wild affair with a soldier who happens to be her dead brother’s best friend. In the second part of the book, after the war, Frankie seems to experience every possible bad break. A drawback of the story is that none of the secondary characters in her life are fully three-dimensional: Her dismissive, chauvinistic father and tight-lipped, pill-popping mother, her fellow nurses, and her various love interests are more plot devices than people. You’ll wish you could have gone to Vegas and placed a bet on the ending—while it’s against all the odds, you’ll see it coming from a mile away.

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ISBN: 9781250178633

Page Count: 480

Review Posted Online: Nov. 4, 2023

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by Edward Carey ; illustrated by Edward Carey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 26, 2021

A deep and grimly whimsical exploration of what it means to be a son, a father, and an artist.

A retelling of Pinocchio from Geppetto's point of view.

The novel purports to be the memoirs of Geppetto, a carpenter from the town of Collodi, written in the belly of a vast fish that has swallowed him. Fortunately for Geppetto, the fish has also engulfed a ship, and its supplies—fresh water, candles, hardtack, captain’s logbook, ink—are what keep the Swallowed Man going. (Collodi is, of course, the name of the author of the original Pinocchio .) A misfit whose loneliness is equaled only by his drive to make art, Geppetto scours his surroundings for supplies, crafting sculptures out of pieces of the ship’s wood, softened hardtack, mussel shells, and his own hair, half hoping and half fearing to create a companion once again that will come to life. He befriends a crab that lives all too briefly in his beard, then mourns when “she” dies. Alone in the dark, he broods over his past, reflecting on his strained relationship with his father and his harsh treatment of his own “son”—Pinocchio, the wooden puppet that somehow came to life. In true Carey fashion, the author illustrates the novel with his own images of his protagonist’s art: sketches of Pinocchio, of woodworking tools, of the women Geppetto loved; photos of driftwood, of tintypes, of a sculpted self-portrait with seaweed hair. For all its humor, the novel is dark and claustrophobic, and its true subject is the responsibilities of creators. Remembering the first time he heard of the sea monster that was to swallow him, Geppetto wonders if the monster is somehow connected to Pinocchio: “The unnatural child had so thrown the world off-balance that it must be righted at any cost, and perhaps the only thing with the power to right it was a gigantic sea monster, born—I began to suppose this—just after I cracked the world by making a wooden person.” Later, contemplating his self-portrait bust, Geppetto asks, “Monster of the deep. Am I, then, the monster? Do I nightmare myself?”

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Page Count: 208

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‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory

One of the most underrated aspects of Jane Austen’s writing — devoted Janeites will no doubt agree — lies in how that English spinster dealt with the damaged. We all know her exuberant characters, the Lizzie Bennets and Emma Woodhouses; her comic relief, the Sir John Middletons and the Augusta Eltons. But her true genius lies in her portrayals of the broken hearts and battered psyches of the Colonel Brandons and the Anne Elliots — those who require some coaxing to return to the society that Austen so brilliantly depicted.

In “ The Jane Austen Society ,” debut novelist Natalie Jenner uses the village of Chawton in Hampshire as the gathering point for her battered and brokenhearted. Chawton House, the “Great House” as Jane Austen knew it, was occupied by her brother Edward Austen Knight; for the last eight years of Austen’s life, she inhabited a cottage just over 1,000 feet away. While Austen had famously lived in Bath, she moved to Chawton in 1809 with her mother and sister. All six of her novels were published after the move, although she had worked on three earlier.

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The action begins in the late 1940s as England limps slowly out of World War II, and the residents of Chawton and its surroundings realize that both Austen’s cottage and family seat may soon be snatched up at auction by greedy developers with little interest in local literary landmarks. So several people, from a quiet farmer to a sad doctor to a young widow and even the last surviving Austen Knight relation, band together to raise money to save the house, along with a few important objects (among them, a turquoise and gold ring that “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson won at auction — before it was banned for export and subsequently bought back by Jane Austen’s House Museum).

“The Jane Austen Society” is no Jane Austen novel; its dialogue is not as crisp, its pace a bit flabby. But Jenner keeps things interesting by moving back and forth in time and place as different story lines progress, and by including a few characters Austen could never have anticipated, such as a Hollywood film star and a local teenager mad for Jane’s archives. Dedicated Janeites will find much to love in these people, who trade quotes from “Sense and Sensibility” and “Persuasion” the way some toss around lines from “The Simpsons.”

If you’ve never cracked the spine of “Sense and Sensibility” or “Persuasion,” you may still adore this sweet, old-fashioned story — but if you do know Austen’s work, you’ll appreciate it all the more. Anyone seeking an antidote to contemporary chaos will find a welcome respite among the members of a group whose outer lives may appear simple, but whose inner lives need the kind of balm Austen knew well.

Bethanne Patrick  is the editor, most recently, of “The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians and Other Remarkable People.”

The Jane Austen Society

By Natalie Jenner

St. Martin’s. 309 pp. $26.99

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Book Review: “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner

Are you a maker of Lists? Do you keep a List of books to read, lists of books read, movies to watch, TV shows not to be missed, lists of gifts, grocery lists, house to-do lists, a master To-Do List? Do you have a List of Lists? Or, as one friend asked me years ago, do you ever add something to your To-Do list already done so you can cross it off? (I said absolutely NO!). But I do love lists – they organize a life, give a sense of control (false though that may be), especially in these troubled times. And so I find that instead of writing a more traditional book review of The Jane Austen Society , that I’d make a List, a very important list of at-least TEN reasons you should read this book – one reason alone is enough; ten means you should buy it immediately and jump right into its world.

1. The Characters: Real and True

The author Natalie Jenner has said she had no outline for this tale, envisioned about eight characters, half male and half female, and essentially let them run amok.* We can only be glad she did! As one of her more Willoughby-like characters says of this rag-tag motley crew of folk all bent on forming a Jane Austen society: they were “a band of misfits with negligible expertise and no head for business: a country doctor, an old maid, a schoolmarm, a bachelor farmer, a fey auctioneer, a conflict-averse solicitor, a scullery maid, and one Hollywood movie star.” [276] – a “band of misfits” indeed. They are all from different backgrounds and histories, all part of the small rural community of Chawton, all with tragedy, pain and grief permeating and controlling their lives. Yet each is fully-drawn – you like, even love, these people.

2. The Plot: So Inventive

This is fiction (more on this below) – and not even historical fiction – it has nothing to do with the Real Jane Austen Society formed in the 1940s, same as our fictional group – so don’t confuse them. Let this story tell itself, as it brilliantly does: how this unlikely cast of characters discover a commonality in Jane Austen of all people, and strive to honor her in some way – they do live in Chawton after all… And in so doing, each finds Hope and Love and Self-Knowledge. And as the tale of each unfolds and their lives become inexorably intertwined, we have mysteries and secrets, stories of war and deaths, disagreements among neighbors, gossipy goings-on, and Love and Romance. What is there not to like? Jane Austen has given them a purpose, a sense of hope and a road map into an understanding of the heart. You find fast friends over Jane Austen, as many of us have found in our own lives.

3. The Setting: Chawton, of course

Not everyone living in this fictional Chawton reads or even likes Jane Austen. Some resent the weird travelers looking for sites associated with her. Even the family heir confesses a preference for the Brontës (especially Villette – pay attention here). But the setting is one we all are very familiar with, if we know a bit about Austen’s life after 1809. Living in Chawton Cottage (now Jane Austen’s House ) and trekking to her brother Edward’s Great House (now Chawton House ), Jane Austen walked these walks, sat in these chairs, read in this library, all so beautifully and authentically described by  Jenner. You are in this world in the 1940s, right along with the characters.

4. The Library [not as “In the Library with Colonel Mustard and the lead pipe”…but a Real Library]

One of my favorite parts of the book (the librarian-bookseller in me). Jenner confesses to a wee mistake about the location of the library at Chawton, but literary license allows just about anything, so she is heartily forgiven. Because she gives us Evie, the aforementioned scullery maid, who at 16 (and without giving too much away) has been secretly cataloguing the entire library in the Great House for the past two years and therefore is more knowledgeable about what’s there, what it’s all worth (and with the added bit of a FOUND letter by Austen, of which I shall say no more…), than anyone else in the family (who have ignored the library for generations) or anyone else in town. Evie is a delightful character – we would like to recruit her for our Reading with Austen / Godmersham Lost Sheep Society project!**

5. Jane Austen in Plain Sight:

One of the pure joys of this book is the light-hearted yet insightful analysis of Austen and her novels: characters actively discussing all the works in their general conversation with each other. Farmer Adam, on first reading Pride and Prejudice considers that “he was becoming quite worried about Mr. Darcy.” [10] The town doctor and the local schoolteacher have a lively chat about Emma: the teacher dislikes Emma, the doctor adores her – they wrangle over Mr. Knightley’s true feelings as Austen drops her clues. [I was delighted to find a new-to-me hint to add to my ever-growing List of Clues that Mr. Knightley is very much in Love .]

Then there are the almost direct correlations between characters – you’ll certainly find a Willoughby or Henry Crawford or a William Elliot in these pages, several of Austen’s couples, maybe even a Mr. Rushworth and a Mrs. Elton – there’s even a Dog! – the fun is finding them and going “aah…” Here’s a standout: one of the characters says “within the pages of Mansfield Park was the playbook for making a good woman fall for a cad.” [151] How true that is – and I never looked at Crawford’s behavior in such a light before…

And then the direct quotes in different contexts, which leads us to…

6. Jane Austen Is Not for “Dull Elves”:

The Austen discussion and character correlations are more straightforward than the many allusions scattered throughout, multiple readings likely needed to flesh them all out. Austen was a master of the allusion herself and again, it’s great fun to find these little crumbs:

“You have borne it as no other woman in England would have…” [295]

“I probably would’ve cut him a lock of my own hair if he’d asked for it.” [188]…

So many – don’t want to inhibit your “sharp-elves” detective skills, so that’s all I shall share…which leads us to another no-spoilers here item on our list…

7. The Mystery(ies) wherein lies a will and an heir just like an Austen plot …

….and shall just say there are secrets and mysteries in abundance. So much under the surface, so much history Jenner gradually allows the reader to see, like the proverbial peeling away of an onion – layers of stories to reveal truths… and again, not unlike Austen, Jenner feeds us more and more of each character and their motivations, and we care largely because of ….

8. The Romance: There’s A Lot of It!

So we have eight major characters, and a house full of minors (some of whom, like in Austen, have a lot to say , and a lot to do to move the plot along). Part of the fun (and mystery) is who will end up with whom ? Even one of the characters falls asleep one night musing on and making mental lists of possible couplings. Evie at 16 is perhaps the most perceptive at seeing what the heck is going on. It’s all quite endearing – but no spoilers here (though can I say there is a Wentworth-like letter??)

9. It’s Fiction!

Ok, have to repeat this – this is pure fiction, not even great literature (though it is very well written), not based on the real Jane Austen Society as I’ve said (and that real story is compelling it is own right – you can read about it here .)

But even if you are not an avid reader of fiction, but you like Jane Austen, you will get much out of your few hours of time invested. And even if you don’t know squat about Jane Austen, you’ll love this book (you can also listen to it – spending several hours with Richard Armitage is top on my Must-Do list] – because of the humor, the grace, and the romance, and because…

10. We Need This Right Now:

This is a Feel Good book – and goodness, we need that right now more than anything – pick it up and wander back into a simpler (though in so many ways harder) time, to a place ravaged by war, when loss and grief were the bywords of the day, and live for a bit with this delightful “band of misfits” as they each find their way to a better future, all with thanks to Jane Austen, a lesson for us all, especially now…

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* You can hear Natalie Jenner’s May 15, 2020 talk for the Chawton House Literary Festival on Youtube here:

Also read her interview with Rachel Dodge at the Jane Austen’s Regency World blog here.

** For a real-life cataloguing project concerning Edward Austen Knight’s libraries at his Godmersham and Chawton estates, please visit the Reading with Austen website and the Reading with Austen blog . Under the direction of Professor Peter Sabor, the hope is to locate (and return if possible) as many of the books that were originally in the Knight library during Jane Austen’s time. We need Evie on this project!

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About the author:

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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About the Book:

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.

Book details: Genre: Historical Fiction, Austenesque Fiction

The Jane Austen Society: A Novel , by Natalie Jenner St. Martin’s Press (May 26, 2020) Hardcover ISBN: 978-1250248732 eBook ASIN: B07WQPPXFW Audiobook ASIN: B082VL7VRR

Blog Tour Dates: May 25 – June 30, 2020 – you can read more about the blog tour and the schedule here and here at Austenprose .

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What a delightful and creative review, Deb! I am still smiling. The librarian in you was able to decompartmentalize the book beautifully. I am so glad that you enjoyed it. It is a giant love letter to our favorite author and the comfort of reading. Like you said, just what we need right now during these very troubling times. Best, LA

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A Giant Love Letter indeed! Glad you enjoyed the review and smiled – I felt that I smiled, laughed, cried, and smiled again through the whole of ‘The Jane Austen Society’ – I wish Natalie Jenner much success with it!

Gee, Deb, I don’t need to write my review! You stole my thoughts and words. Great promo for a fledgling author, who deserves all the accolades that have come her way.

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Review: The Jane Austen Society

In the years between the beginning of World War I and the postwar era of World War II, an unlikely group comes together in Chawton, England, each drawn by a connection to Jane Austen and her work. 

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.

Not much is known about Austen’s personal life, since her family destroyed many of her letters and personal items after her death. In Natalie Jenner’s debut novel, The Jane Austen Society , a group including a film star, her wealthy fiance, a country doctor, and a farm boy all are drawn together to preserve Austen’s legacy and home. With Austen’s family estate crumbling, the group decides that it is their duty to preserve what they can of their beloved author’s home and share the joy of her work with others. Sprinkled with quotes from Austen’s works, this charming story takes a fictional look at the legacy of one of England’s best known authors.

Jenner’s book opens with chapters introducing each of the central characters, setting up relationships between the members of the small town of Chawton and quietly revealing how their past traumas have shaped their relationships to each other.

The book has a calm feel over all; I liked how the characters were allowed the space to be introduced, leave the story, and then reappear in connections to one another. With archetypes from the lonely widow to the glamorous movie star present in the story, there were plenty of characters for me to get invested in and seeing how the characters drew together around their love for Austen was a meaningful part of the story.

One part I appreciated about this book was it showed the power of an author to draw a variety of people together around their work, which, after all, is a huge part of why we read books. 

In addition to quality character development, the book gives a glimpse into Chawton, detailing for the reader the treasures of the small town. While the book is fictional, Jenner’s enjoyment of Austen’s works and her commitment to research comes through in her detailing of both Chawton and the last years of Austen’s life. I loved getting to spend some time with these characters and “exploring” Chawton, and the book was a heartfelt look at how passion for an author can bring people together from very different walks of life. One of my favorite parts of this story was how the bonds the characters initially form over Austen encourages them to support each other in other ways, as they heal from the trauma of the war years. 

I would heartily recommend this book to any fans of Austen, charming country towns, and sweetly character driven stories. Grab a copy of The Jane Austen Society to spend some time being transported into the world of Austenites as they discover both Jane’s secrets and their own. 

I was provided a copy of The Jane Austen Society by St. Martin’s Press in exchange for a review. All opinions are my own. 

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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Book Review: The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

The Jane Austen Society is the perfect book for quarantine, for unsettling times, for a quiet read, or for a virtual book club. Even better, it’s everything a Jane Austen fan could wish for in historical fiction.

If you like books about people who love books, people who gather to form societies to read and save old books, or books about England in the 1940s, then this is the book for you. And if you loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (read my list of 5 Reasons you should read it here ), you’ll find another group of similarly-minded friends in this book.

The Characters in it

First, I enjoyed the ensemble cast of characters and each storyline. I, of course, have my favorites, but I’ll let you decide for yourself. Their stories intertwine in the most wonderful way. Each one is on his/her own path toward inner healing, which creates many lovely character arcs.

And what is a good cast of characters without a good love story (or several) to keep things interesting?! I found the love stories gentle, endearing, and realistic. Each one blossoms and unfurls beautifully as past sorrows slowly give way to future hope.

The Feel of it

It just doesn’t get much better than the feel of village life in Chawton in the 1940s in this novel. The descriptions of the farm, the lanes, Jane Austen’s house, the church, Chawton Great House–all of them are intimate and dear. Natalie Jenner makes you feel as though you’ve stepped back in time, onto the streets of Chawton.

The Jane Austen of it

There are MANY reasons to read this gorgeous novel, but if you’re a Jane Austen fan, I don’t see how you could resist. It’s all about a group of people who are drawn together by their shared love of Jane Austen and her novels. More than anything else, they want to save her house and her legacy, but they have to find a way to do it. (And it isn’t easy.)

Also, true Austen fans will find all sorts of fun nods to Austen’s novels strewn throughout the book. You’ll need to look carefully. I found many that were delightful!!

The Comfort of it

Finally, there is something comforting about this book. I loved curling up with it. It felt like a warm hug after a long day.

I hope you’ll enjoy this book as much as I did. If you’d like to have a chance to win a copy of it, check my Instagram account for details.

Grace and peace, Rachel

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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.

Read my interview with Natalie here!

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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.

AUDIOBOOK NARRATED BY ACTOR RICHARD ARMITAGE:

The full unabridged text of THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY was read by the distinguished English film, television, theatre and voice actor Richard Armitage for the audiobook recording. Best known by many period drama fans for his outstanding performance as John Thornton in the BBC television adaptation of North and South (2004), Armitage also portrayed Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit (2012 – 2014). Here’s an excerpt!

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Q&A Interview: Natalie Jenner on ‘The Jane Austen Society’

Natalie Jenner, the author of  The Jane Austen Society , answers fan’s questions for The Silver Petticoat Book Club.

If you’ve been following our brand-new Silver Petticoat Book Club, you’d know our first book club pick is  The Jane Austen Society  by Natalie Jenner! It’s a brilliant new historical fiction book about Jane Austen fans coming together in the 1940s to preserve Austen’s legacy and her Chawton home. It’s an uplifting book that pays tribute to Austen’s beloved novels while also telling a unique story. If you haven’t read it yet, consider adding it to your reading list. 

For the book club, Natalie Jenner graciously agreed to do a Q&A with the readers. So, I gathered up some fan’s questions from the book club group and turned them over to Natalie with a couple of additional questions. So, here you go!

AMBER TOPPING: Who (or what) motivated you to become a writer? Have you always wanted to be a writer?

NATALIE JENNER: I don’t remember ever  not  wanting to be a writer. My mother says that even before I could read, as young as 2 or 3, I traipsed about the house with a little pencil in my hand and would pretend to scribble down musings. I was  that  kid. My mum put together my first book for me when I was eight, with a front and back cover held together by string and those little seals for punched holes in paper. And my father would always come back from business trips with books for me, including each of the seven  Anne of Green Gables  series and a wonderful Austen anthology, all of which I still own and treasure. Both my parents thoroughly encouraged and supported me in whatever I did.

The other key formative influence on my writing has been my English teachers and university professors over the years, each of whom I thank in the acknowledgements to my book. In fact, getting this book published gave me a great excuse to reach out to each of them where possible, and they are all so thrilled for me. I think every writer knows, it’s really the teachers on this one that make the difference. Your family may always love (or have no interest!) in what you write, but teachers are the ones whose encouragement really carries weight and powers you through the years of rejection. 

It took you a long time to get published. How did you cope with the disappointment or discouragement while you kept moving forward? 

The wall of agents’ and publishers’ silence that met my first five books was always extremely disappointing to me, but I never let it interfere with the writing itself. It was actually easy to compartmentalize like that, because I only ever write when I feel like it, and because writing honestly was, and still is, the most fun I’ve ever had. Writing can be hard and exacting work, and it requires commitment and diligence, but in the end, everything about this journey is wonderful if you keep finding the fun in creating imaginary worlds.

Did you model your characters in the book on specific Austen characters? The fans want to know who your inspiration was for each of the characters!

As I describe below, my characters appear to me fully formed on the page when they first show up. But as I wrote, I discovered the opportunity to create intentional parallels with Austen’s works, based on how the characters were already relating to each other, especially romantically, and sometimes within their first scene together. From that point on, I had so much fun filling in backstory or creating behaviour and dialogue that called to mind specific characters from Austen’s pages.

To that end, the age difference and socially inappropriate nature of any romantic relationship between Dr. Gray and Adeline reminded me of Mr. Knightley and Emma, while their tension/suspicion around each other, mutual pride, and sparring reflects Darcy and Elizabeth .  The character of Frances Knight is inspired by both Fanny Price from  Mansfield Park  for her patience and pragmatic resignation, and Anne Elliot in  Persuasion  for her regretful bending to the will of her family as a young woman.

The comic character of Liberty Pascal is based on the Steele sisters in  Sense and Sensibility . Mimi Harrison and Jack Leonard’s relationship contains elements of both the siblings Mary and Henry Crawford from  Mansfield Park , Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy in  Pride and Prejudice,  and Marianne and Willoughby in  Sense and Sensibility , especially when it comes to themes of the power of physical attractiveness and seduction. Adam Berwick’s last name is a play on Captain Benwick from  Persuasion , the grief-stricken sailor who lost his fiancée presumably to illness while away at sea .  These are just some of the parallels, and the only ones I can share without spoiling some of the plot twists!

What real facts either about Jane Austen or the real Jane Austen Society inspired you the most?  

I was so inspired by Austen’s commitment to her craft at a time when “lady authors” were published anonymously: by how she rigorously worked over her manuscripts, corresponded directly with publishers (some of whom had never published a woman before!), loved getting feedback on her work from her family, and kept writing even during periods of chronic ill health, income insecurity, and pain.

In terms of the real Jane Austen Society, I was so impressed by how in 1940 a local woman, Dorothy Darnell, saw an old piece of fire grate lying as rubbish by the side of the main Chawton road and decided that Austen’s legacy and home needed to be saved and preserved somehow. Darnell gathered together a handful of other similarly inclined souls, and they met in her front parlour in May 1940 (exactly 80 years ago) to form the first Jane Austen Society in the world. But because WWII was raging, funds were scarce and they were unable to raise enough money through newspaper advertisements and the like to purchase the cottage and turn it into a museum.

Then in 1948, a grieving father and Austen fan, T. E. Carpenter, who had lost his son in battle during the war, purchased the cottage outright and donated it to the nation. A trust was formed, and the Jane Austen Society worked with the trust to open the museum in 1949 (last summer was the 70th celebration of its own founding). So, a lot of anniversaries going on, which makes things extra poignant for me with my book. 

Have you begun any negotiations for a film adaptation of  The Jane Austen Society ? The fans would love to see your book on the screen! 

Hollywood definitely works on its own clock—things in that industry happen both very quickly, and very slowly, sometimes at the exact same time! So although right now we are fielding interest from various production companies, the process is still very much in its beginning stages. But that could always change, at any minute!

Do you have a dream cast with any actors in mind?  

I would love Richard Armitage for Dr. Gray (he is the exact right age!), and either Ruth Wilson (who does damaged and passionate both so well) or this amazing young actress from the recent BBC production of  Howards End , Philippa Coulthard, for Adeline. I always saw Hayley Atwell as Mimi when I was writing, Olivia Colman for Frances but with lighter hair, and Matthew Goode for Andrew (although I think Richard Armitage could do a great job there, too!). My dream Evie is Saoirse Ronan, all the way. Finally, I see James Norton as Adam (swoon!) and Tom Hughes as Yardley. For Jack Leonard, only one actor will do: Armie Hammer.

Did you have any input into how Richard Armitage voiced each of the characters in the audiobook? They all have such a distinctive tone of voice, and it really brings the audiobook to life!

Not only did I not have input, but Mr. Armitage brought so much creativity and wisdom to his choices that at times I felt like I was hearing my own words for the first time. He even gave Yardley Sinclair the perfect Scottish accent, a brilliant choice that had completely escaped this author during the writing of it! Mr. Armitage elevated the entire text with his acting gifts, and with the interior monologues in particular (Adeline by the window seat after the loss of her baby, Dr. Gray in the graveyard, Adam during the first full meeting of the society), I was moved to tears for the first time ever. The entire experience of hearing my words come alive in this way has given me even greater appreciation for the level of his talent and generosity as an actor.

What is your all-time favorite Jane Austen novel? 

My favourite of Austen’s books is  Pride and Prejudice,  but with  Emma  almost too close to call. With both books, there is such a range of comic characters and tales of personal growth to learn from, but at the heart of each pulses a romantic love story that always sweeps me away, no matter how many times I read it.

I always recommend  Pride and Prejudice  to newbies because it’s the funniest and the most accessible. It also has, in Elizabeth Bennet, the greatest female character in all of literature. I defy anyone who meets her on the page to not want to immediately be her friend. And in Elizabeth’s love story with Darcy, Austen created the prototype for every hate-to-love romance that has come after. But it’s also a story about how different people need different things, and having compassion and understanding for that. Oh, and money: Austen is always about money and how the having or the lack of it impacts every choice we make, whether we consciously want to recognize that or not. This is a theme that all humans can relate to, no matter where or when they live.

Why do you think Jane Austen’s books resonate so much with readers?  

I think Austen creates a world that is so self-contained and foreign to us that it works as an escape, and yet is  just  similar enough to capture—through her brilliant use of characterization—every human quirk and foible that we too would recognize in ourselves and our neighbours today. Consequently, when we step into her world, we can work through our own understanding of ourselves and others, and of the human condition in general. In this way, her writing is forever relatable, no matter when we come to it.

I also think that the very qualities of Austen’s work that can sometimes be criticized (the lack of historical context or physical detail, a quietness to the story, the omniscient narrative voice) all work in her favor when it comes to her timelessness. There is absolutely no grandstanding, no strategic playing to the reader of the time. Austen cared about her audience as much as anyone, but I think she cared about winning them over in a pretty lofty and lasting way: by appealing to all of our better selves. I think we simply feel better about our own chances for growth and happiness, and about the ways in which we can support and even lift each other up, when we read these books and see such recognizable and flawed characters do the same. 

What message do you hope readers will take with them after reading  The Jane Austen Society ?  

It’s very simple, in a way, and it’s set out near the end of the book: that sometimes it feels like everything we are holding onto in life has been stripped away, or lost, and that hope is all we are left with. But that sometimes—and I am living proof of this—hope can also be just enough. The key thing is not to give up, but to do the absolute minimum you can to keep moving forward—whether that be by reaching out to a new experience or new person in your life, or even something as simple as trying a new type of book, or joining a new book club! One never knows where anything might end up leading to in life, but the only way to get there is to keep moving forward.

Do you plan on writing another book? 

Yes, definitely—in fact, I am working on one now. It too is historical fiction, but this time set in 1950s London, in a bookshop. That’s all I can say for now, but I suspect fans of  The Jane Austen Society  will not be disappointed when they learn more, which will hopefully be soon.

Official Book Blurb of The Jane Austen Society By Natalie Jenner

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.

You can find out more about The Jane Austen Society by reading our book review . You can also check out our first book club reveal with more details (and a video introduction from Natalie Jenner!) HERE .

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Amber works as a writer and digital publisher full-time and fell in love with stories and imagination at an early age. She has a Humanities and Film Degree from BYU, co-created The Silver Petticoat Review, contributed as a writer to various magazines, and has an MS in Publishing from Pace University, where she received the Publishing Award of Excellence and wrote her thesis on transmedia, Jane Austen, and the romance genre. Her ultimate dreams are publishing books, writing and producing movies, traveling around the world, and forming a creative village of talented storytellers trying to change the world through art.

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The Jane Austen Society

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• There is a wide range of major characters in The Jane Austen Society . Which of the eight main characters was your favorite? Which of their personal stories did you find the most satisfying? Which one do you most identify with and why?
• Jane Austen's writing – and the characters' love of her writing – is what brings them together. If you are a fan of Jane Austen, what is your favorite book and why? If not, then which of her books are you now most interested in reading?
• Several of the characters are living with – and, to differing extents, dealing with – the grief of losing a close loved one. Did you find yourself sympathizing with one of them more than the others? What about their story touched you the most?
• Most of The Jane Austen Society takes place in the 1940s, right after World War II. Given that it was a very different time, with very different attitudes, what aspect revealed in the novel seemed the most familiar to your experience? What seemed the most changed since that time?
• Mimi Harrison is in sharp contrast to the rest of the characters – she's from the U.S., she's a movie star, she has wealth far beyond the rest of the characters. Beyond their shared love of Jane Austen's work, what traits do you think she has most in common with the rest of the characters? Which other character does she best complement?
• Adam Berwick has to make an important decision – one that will not only affect the Society but his family as well. Do you think he made the right decision? Why?
• What surprised you the most about the book? Were there any plot developments you did not expect?
• There are many obvious and more subtle allusions to Austen's own plots and characters throughout the book. If you're familiar with Austen, which parallels did you particularly notice? Which ones most delighted you?
• What expectations did you have of this book entitled The Jane Austen Society ? What plotlines surprised you? Which ones developed in the way you expected?
• What do you imagine happened to the Society and to the members after the end of the book?

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