![]() ![]() All during this time I had also been binge-watching Downton Abbey and a BBC reality show called Escape to the Country. I had been coping with an extremely harrowing medical diagnosis for my husband by turning to the books of Jane Austen, which have always given me a unique kind of solace in challenging times. When did you first come up with the idea for The Jane Austen Society? ![]() In this interview, Natalie gives us an inside look into when she came up with the idea for the novel, why she chose to set the novel in the 1940’s, her favorite Jane Austen novel and more. ![]() The cast of characters include a WWII war widow, a village doctor, a farmer/local handyman, a town solicitor, a maid at the Knight family estate, an heiress, an employee of Sotheby’s and a Hollywood actress. The Jane Austen Society centers around eight main characters who have one things in common, they are all obsessed with Austen and want to turn her cottage into a museum. This book, which is a must read for any fan of Austen, is a fictional story about society started in the 1940’s in the village of Chawton (where Jane Austen lived and wrote her novels). There’s an exciting new book release from debut author Natalie Jenner titled, The Jane Austen Society. ![]()
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