Basically the six
people in the book meet up once a month to discuss Jane Austen's
novels, and you get an account of each meeting along with a
whole bunch of daily incidents and, more often, memories -
mostly (but not always) told from the point of view of whoever's
turn it is to host the meeting that month.
It's funny, it has fashion,
it has a magazine...basically it's funky. I did this for my
English project and it went down like a lead balloon, but I do
love the book. If you like humour but with a whole
"girl-seems-to-forget-family-but-sees-error-of-her-ways-and-benefits-from-experience"
thing (which I usually do), you'll love it.
Emma Blair
Suggested Reading:
Scarlet Ribbons
It's a historical romance,
and a more brilliant one you will not find (according to me of
course lol,
except maybe another of her books, Maggie Jordan, which is also
brilliant). It doesn't hurt that I believe at least a part of every
book by Emma Blair is set in Glasgow. Scarlet Ribbons takes place
mostly in Canada but it does start in Glasgow's tenements. It's so
touching...her family can't support her, etc. and so she goes to an
orphanage...ends up in Canada with a beastly pair who make her and
the boy who also comes with her do a lot of manual work...eventually
through what is usually a bad event she leaves there...falls in love
and they go to the UK...*tries not to give too much away* At any
rate, it's very sad, and you'll fall in love with Edward and hate
the dastardly Courcy until...*grins*
