Jane Austen in Boca

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife.

JANE AUSTEN centered her classic novels around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in this witty twist on Pride and Prejudice—except this time the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida.

Eligible men are scarce in Boca, and so good-hearted meddler Carol Newman has her work cut out for her to engineer a match between her lonely mother-in-law, May, and the wealthy and personable widower, Norman Grafstein. Even May's sharp-tongued friend Flo approves of Norman—although Norman's best friend Stan, a cynical professor, keeps getting under Flo's skin.

Will love ultimately conquer both pride and prejudice? Misunderstandings abound in this perceptive, engaging comedy of manners.