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Cassandra Campbell
About this listen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘This is Pride and Prejudice 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the original’ STYLIST
‘Bold and brilliant’ GLAMOUR
'Sheer joy… Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice’ JESSIE BURTON, author of The Miniaturist
Liz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They’ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development.
Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status – and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .
In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth.
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Praise for ELIGIBLE:
‘If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it’ Elle
‘These days, if Curtis Sittenfeld writes it, I read it’ Judy Blume
‘Eligible has all the charm, wit and romance of Pride & Prejudice…an absolute delight’ Red
‘Dazzling’ Woman and Home
‘Such a feast of a book’ Nigella Lawson
‘Not since “Clueless,” has Austen been so delightedly interpreted’ New York Times
©2016 Curtis Sittenfeld (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedA enjoyable update
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slow start but enjoyed
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Best ever - just wonderful
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In this charming version of Jane Austen's novel, Liz Bennet's compulsion to sort out her family, while floundering with her love life, is moved to modern-day America (primarily Cincinnati). The familiar characters - the five sisters, the meddling mother, resigned father, and assorted beaus - are all well crafted, and the writing is warm and engaging, with enough clever updating to keep it interesting: reality tv, mobile phones and IVF all make appearances. At the same time, it retains the tone and basic plot of the original; it's good quality romantic fiction, rather than literary masterpiece.
The narration is of a very high standard, although Cassandra Campbell's poshly nasal American accent, while appropriate to the story, did take a while to get used to. It's a novel that invites opinion, and would be a great choice for a book club. I have already gifted a copy to a friend and look forward to her thoughts.
I should note that I'm not a P&P fanatic, so I'm not precious about the original, although I have enjoyed reading it and seen many on-screen versions. Nor have I read Sittenfeld's acclaimed novel American Wife, although after enjoying Eligible, it's now on my wishlist.
A warm retelling of Pride & Prejudice
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loved it
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Easy listening and entertaining
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Pride and Prejudice updated
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Alright for a modernisation
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Interesting reimagining of the traditional story
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The author took me on a journey from disliking Darcey to rooting for him and Liz.
Realistic details
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