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 MiniaturistTHE 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 MiniaturistLiz 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.__________________________________________________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 TimesPraise for ELIGIBLE:‘If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it’ Elle‘Bold and brilliant’ Glamour‘Eligible has all the charm, wit and romance of Pride & Prejudice and also takes these characters who are such a stalwart feature of our literary landscape and treats them with such affection and humour, that I defy anyone not to find Eligible an absolute delight’ Red‘Dazzling’ Woman and Home‘Fizzy’ and ‘Funny’ Psychologies‘Such a feast of a book’ Nigella Lawson‘Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition… not since “Clueless,” which transported Emma to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted’ The New York Times‘An enjoyably light-hearted romp’ Financial Times‘Hilarious and endearing family drama’ Kirkus Reviews‘Effortlessly entertaining and delightfully readable’ The National‘A delightful romp for not only Austen devotees but also lovers of romantic comedies and sly satire, as well . . . Bestselling Sittenfeld plus Jane Austen? What more could mainstream fiction readers ask for?’ Booklist‘Sittenfeld adeptly updates and channels Austen’s narrative voice—the book is full of smart observations on gender and money. . . . A clever retelling of an old-fashioned favourite’ Publishers WeeklyPraise for CURTIS SITTENFELD:‘Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one’ Maggie Shipstead‘Sittenfeld has an astonishing gift for creating characters that take up in residence in reader’s heads’ Washington Post‘When it comes to tearing apart contemporary American family life, Sittenfeld is up there in a class of her own’ Guardian‘Curtis Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset…It feels important…Most vitally of all, it feels like adolescence’ The Times‘Sittenfeld is a pin-sharp observer’ Independent on SundayThe Sunday Times BestsellerCurtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her nonfiction has been published widely, including in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Vanity Fair, and Glamour and broadcast on public radio’s This American Life. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in St. Louis.The Sunday Times Bestseller• Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of Prep, American Wife and Sisterland and has a terrific sales history in the UK: American Wife was a Sunday Times bestseller – selling 200,000 copies and counting; Sisterland was a 2014 R&J hit• Curtis is now established in readers and reviewers minds as the author who nails and smartens up any genre she decides to write in – this is a writer at the top of her game.• With Eligible, Curtis is redefining ‘the retelling genre’ as we know it. Set in the MidWest – we are back on the author’s home turf. The Bennet Family are of good Ohio stock and Mrs Bennet is particularly happy at the arrival of Doctor Chip Bingley to Cincinnati, as well as his neurosurgeon friend Darcy.• Pride and Prejudice is Austen’s most popular, most beloved novel – this is going to DELIGHT Austen fans but also hit right at the heart of a Sittenfeld one too.• This is a major spring HB for Borough: The press coverage off the success of Joanna Trollope’s Sense & Sensibility and Val McDermid’s Northanger Abbey shows Sittenfeld’s Pride & Prejudice is the most anticipated of all the Austen retellings.Competition: American Wife;Acts Of Love;Modern Lovers;Rodham;You Think It I’ll Say It;Prep;My Dark Vanessa;Such a Fun Age;Queenie;Sister-Land. by;Jane Austen;Talulah Riley Emma Straub;Kiley Reid;Jeanine Cummings;Ann Patchett;Elizabeth Strout;Tayari Jones;Kate Elizabeth Russell;Hilary Mantel;Kate Atkinson
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