Four lifelong friends' lives are turned upside down when their book club attempts to shake things up by tackling the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey series. From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.

A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...

Living a quiet life as the wife of a Hollywood producer, Anne Rosenbaum finds herself running an exclusive book club for some of the motion picture industry's elite as she tries to save her marriage after her husband has a crisis of faith and turns back to Jewish Orthodoxy.