![]() So when I heard that Curtis Sittenfeld was writing a modern retelling of Pride And Prejudice, I actually did a proper squeal out loud in a public place. It’s been interesting to watch how she’s developed as a writer, especially with her novel, American Wife, a quite extraordinary story about the wife of an American President, in love with her husband but not his politics and rumoured to be a roman a clef about Laura Bush, wife of George Bush Junior. And I’ve also loved Curtis Sittenfeld since I read Prep, her debut novel, a coming of age story set in an exclusive New England boarding school. Every time, Jane Austen’s sly humour, her vividly drawn characters, the plot rattling through catastrophe and possible ruin to a satisfyingly happy ending, has me gripped, even though I could practically quote the whole book from memory.Īnd still, I usually reread it once a year and even Matthew Macfadyen’s terrible wig in the 2005 Joe Wright film couldn’t dim my ardour for Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gold standard by which all other romantic heroes are to be judged and usually found severely wanting. ![]() ![]() It never feels like I’m ploughing through a set text written over two hundred years ago. ![]() I first read it at school when I was twelve and it’s been a keeper ever since. ![]()
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