Sense And Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

Hardback:  Two sisters could hardly be more different.

Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values patience and reliability.  Her impulsive sister, Marianne, takes after their mother Belle and is fiery and creative, filling the house with her dramas and guitar playing, while dreaming of going to art school.

But when their father, Henry Dashwood, dies suddenly, his whole family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years.  Without the comfort of status, their values are severely put to the test.

Can Elinor remain stoic and restrained knowing that the man she really likes has already been ensnared by another girl?

Will Marianne's faith in a one and only lifetime love be shaken by meeting the hottest boy in the county, John Willoughby?

And in a world where social media and its opinions are the controlling forces at play, can love ever triumph over conventions and disapproval?

With her wit and eye for social nuance, Joanna Trollope casts Sense and Sensibility (2013) in a fresh new light to re-tell a wonder coming-of-age story about young love and heartbreak, and how when it comes to money especially, some things never change.

About the author:  Joanna Trollope is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed contemporary bestselling novels including, most recently, The Other Family (2010), Daughters-in-Law (2011) and The Soldier's Wife (2012).  She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters (1983), and ten historical novels published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.  Joanna was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List and was the Chair of Judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.  Fans of Joanna Trollope will be pleased to know that she will be releasing a new book, Balancing Act, in 2014.

Joanna Trollope's much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) launched The Austen Project.  "It is hugely exciting to attempt the reworking of one of the best novels written by one of our greatest novelists.  This is a project which requires consummate respect above all else;  not an emulation, but a tribute," said the author.

The Austen Project is a major new series of six novels teaming up authors of global literary significance with Jane Austen's six complete works.  The project continues with Val McDermid's twenty-first century version of Northanger Abbey in spring 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride and Prejudice in autumn 2014.  Alexander McCall Smith will be reworking Emma.  The names of the other two writers and further news will be announced later this year.



Rating:  5/5