A Room of One's Own Press in Victoria has released Joan Austen-Leigh's fifth novel, Invitation to the Party, a light-hearted, self-published tale of life and love in a contemporary wine-growing Okanagan town. Austen-Leigh, who has written five novels and 30 plays, has just received an Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Goucher College in Baltimore to recognize her role as the founder of the Jane Austen Society of North America with its 4000 members. At 80, she lives in Victoria.

[BCBW SUMMER 2001]