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Fowler,Karen JoyFox, KateFreedland,JonathanThe Jane Austen Book ClubSix people five women and a man meetonce a month in California’s CentralValley to discuss Jane Austen’s novels.They are ordinary people, neitherhappy nor unhappy, but each of themis wounded in some ways. Over the sixmonths they meet, marriages are tested,affairs begin, unsuitable arrangementsbecome suitable and some of them evenfall in love.Why IKate Fox was born in 1975 and grew upin West Yorkshire and South Cumbria.Kate’s collection of comic poems, WhyI, was published by Zebra Publishing inMay 2005. It covers topics from DavidHasselhoff’s involvement in the fall of theBerlin Wall, to small girlfriends, to thesimilarity of a Geordie exclamation andexistentialism?Jacob’s GiftJonathan Freedland and his son Jacob arethe fourth and fifth generation of Jewishimmigrants who came from EasternEurope to Britain to carve a new life forthemselves. In “Jacob’s Gift”, Freedlanddelves deep into his family history todiscover what brought his ancestors toBritain and what they found when theygot there. The result is a wonderfulfamily memoir, and a profoundmeditation on roots, identity and theperennial need to belong.28