“The Jane Austen Society: A Novel” by Natalie Jenner

In this gentle, moving book, the author creates a group of people in post-war England who have all suffered various trauma, and who have a common love of Jane Austen’s writings, along with a deep desire to keep her legacy alive in the small village of Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen lived at the end of her life.  When they gradually come together to form a society to preserve artifacts and attempt to buy Jane Austen’s old cottage for a museum, they not only open themselves to find like-minded friends, but also find purpose and healing, both in the relationships with each other, and in the curative power of literature. 5 Stars