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I had the best conversation with Natalie Jenner, who is a debut author of fun, especially during quarantine. I had the best conversation

with Natalie Jenner, who is a debut author of the Jane Austen Society. We chatted on Instagram

live, so you can watch that there if you would like on my at Zibi Owen's Instagram page.

Natalie was born in England and emigrated to Canada as a young child. She obtained her BA

from the University of Toronto St. Michael's College, where she was the 1990 gold medalist in English literature. She obtained her BA from the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College,

where she was the 1990 gold medalist in English literature. She got her LLB from the University of

Toronto's faculty of law and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1995. In addition to a brief career

as a corporate lawyer, Natalie has worked as a recruiter, a career coach, and consultant to leading

law firms in Canada for over 20 years. Most recently, Natalie founded the independent bookstore, Archetype Books in Oakville,

Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs. Hi. Hi. Well, thanks for coming on today.

Thanks so much for having me, obviously. Oh, sure. So it's so funny, I was recently on

Ann Bogle's podcast, which is called What Should I Read Next? And your book was one of the ones that she was most excited about reading this summer. So I know. It's been really great. She's been wonderfully supportive. I feel very blessed right now. So tell us what your book is about and what inspired you to write it.

So my book is about eight extremely different people at the end of World War II who are all dealing with trauma and loss in different ways.

And they bond over a sort of unknown shared love of Jane Austen that's sort of percolating amongst them and sort of either on their own or in little subgroups and they decided to form a society to try and save the cottage where Jane Austen in real

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