The novel is character-driven, but the characters would probably not be all that interesting to many people. Or is it Mansfield Park? Or Pride and Prejudice? Or Northanger Abbey?) Particularly Persuasion, Emma, and a cad straight out of Sense and Sensibility. Winding through the story of the diverse group of society members are shades of some of the plots and characters from Jane Austen’s novels. And this one has a Hollywood Movie Star and Jane Austen! It also reminded me of the work of the 20th-century English novelist, D. As many have pointed out, it has a lot in common with a book that really spoke to me, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. England recovering from the devastation of WWII…an outsider welcomed into a small community of the like-minded… gentle romances…bookish conversations. I started it on Audible read by Richard Armitage and finished it on Kindle. And the society itself sounded like 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.
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