Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California`s Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen`s novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love ...
Karen Joy Fowler (Bloomington, Indiana, 1950) És l?autora de tres llibres de relats i sis novel?les, entre les quals l?èxit internacional The Jane Austen Book Club. Amb Estem ben trastocats (2013), primera obra seva que es tradueix al català, ha obtingut el premi PEN/Faulkner i ha estat finalista del premi Man Booker. Viu a Santa Cruz, Califòrnia.