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From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.
John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate. When she descends upon Norland Park, the three Dashwood girls—Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret—are faced with the realities of a cold world and the cruelties of life without their father, their home, or their money.
With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
Reimagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel’s romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change....
- Sales Rank: #106785 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-10-29
- Released on: 2013-10-29
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Music is listened to with ear buds attached to iPods, gossip is passed via texts on smartphones, and scandal is exploited through viral videos on YouTube. Other than that, Trollope’s reworking of Austen’s classic stays true to the original. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are still hopeless and helpless in affairs of the heart. Marianne still endangers her health and reputation by pining over the nefarious John “Wills” Willoughby, while Elinor still sends and receives mixed messages from the equally hapless Edward Ferrars. Variously supported and undermined by their more financially secure and socially connected relatives—John and Fanny Dashwood and the entire Millington clan down in Devon—the Dashwood women somehow still manage to have things turn out all right in the end. By updating Austen’s first published novel to reflect modern slang, dress, and conveniences, Trollope brings an accessibility to this romantic comedy of manners that may appeal to the Bridget Jones crowd. True Austen fans, however, will undoubtedly still prefer the original. --Carol Haggas
Review
“A fizzy, pop-fiction Jane Austen update....Trollope’s comic romp is a satisfying tribute….When Sir John arrives to invite the displaced family to live at Barton Cottage, he gets his laptop out and plays a slideshow of the house. ‘It’s a charmer,’ he tells them. Likewise Trollope’s book.” (Boston Globe)
“Trollope is a gifted chronicler of modern life and mores; she also clearly knows and appreciates Austen’s world. Her update retains the essence of the characters Austen created...with a true Janeite’s dry sense of humor and the occasional sly reference to the original.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
“Even though you may know Austen’s novels well enough to predict exactly what will happen next, you’ll care about finding your way to the happy ending of Trollope’s version…Is the new S&S worth reading? The answer is unequivocally yes...The Austen Project is a breathtaking tribute to Jane Austen.” (Washington Post)
“By updating Austen’s first published novel to reflect modern slang, dress, and conveniences, Trollope brings an accessibility to this romantic comedy of manners that may appeal to the Bridget Jones crowd.” (Booklist)
“Jane Austen’s story and Joanna Trollope’s voice make the perfect marriage. I loved every page. It’s witty and fresh, whilst completely respecting the original, timeless story. What a delight!” (Sophie Kinsella)
“Trollope has clearly had enormous fun with her updating, and part of the delight for the reader is wondering what she’s going to do next.” (The Observer)
“You don’t have to have read the original Sense & Sensibility to enjoy this breezy new take on Austen’s 1811 debut….Wittily, stylishly and sensitively written with lots of delicious upmarket detail. A must for Trollope and Austen fans alike.” (Daily Mail (London))
“Trollope has kept the framework of Austen’s novel but modernised the surfaces….Trollope adds verbal fizz. It’s a faster, zestier read than the original....A fun exercise and one that provokes serious thought.” (The Times (London))
“Jane Austen’s bestie sisters ditch the corsets (but keep the Downton-style estate) in a 2013 take on Sense & Sensibility.” (Cosmopolitan)
“In many ways, Trollope and Austen are a natural marriage….The moments in which she moves away from the original are satisfying, and well chosen….The fidelity of the retelling has clever consequences.” (The Guardian)
“A bloody good read. From Twitter and Taylor Swift to the lure of the wrong man, the Dashwood girls, who I still can’t help but love, are drawn to painterly perfection by Trollope; their dreams and dramas as real as they were in 1811.” (Stylist)
“Jane Austen’s tale of two sisters is vividly brought into the 20th century by one of our best-loved storytellers.” (Woman and Home)
PRAISE FOR JOANNA TROLLOPE (Various)
“Like a good kitchen chat, Joanna Trollope’s novels dish out equal measures of reassuring warmth and sobering insight....... [Her] gift is her ability to capture far-flung perspectives with compassion.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Trollope’s astute observations cast her as a modern-day Austen.” (Library Journal (starred review))
“Her books are . . . readable without being trivial, accessible without being pat, psychologically astute without being labored.” (Wall Street Journal)
“[Trollope] aims for the heart… and she hits it.” (The New Yorker)
“Trollope is at her best analyzing the complex strands of DNA that bind families-and sometimes threaten to strangle them.” (People)
“Wonderfully and compulsively readable. She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Brontë. Trollope’s brilliant.” (Mail on Sunday (London))
“[An author who] makes her readers want to drop everything in order to keep on reading.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Trollope is brilliant at swooping in on a modern dilemma and showing it from everyangle… Inventive, surprising and fascinating.” (The Times (London))
“Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists.” (The Independent)
“Trollope is one of those rare writers who creates fully human characters living in recognizable worlds doing regular jobs and suffering all the bitter disappointments that flesh is heir to…a writer who seldom strikes a wrong note.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Supremely sure of her material and purpose, compassionate but never sentimental.” (Sunday Times (London))
“Trollope is as poised and intricate a portraitist as her famous novelist ancestor, Anthony Trollope.” (Washington Post)
“As ever, Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve.” (The Guardian (London))
From the Back Cover
Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values patience and reliability. Her impulsive sister, Marianne, 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, they discover that their values are severely put to the test.
With her wit and eye for social nuance, Joanna Trollope casts Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility in a fresh new light to retell a wonderful coming-of-age story about young love and heartbreak, and how, especially when it comes to money, some things never change. . . .
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77 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
Why???
By FictionFan
Warning! This review may involve wailing and gnashing of teeth, not to mention cursing...of both kinds. Persons of a sensitive disposition may wish to look away now. And on the assumption that no-one will be interested in this who doesn't know the original, there are some mild spoilers...
The Austen project is a strange little idea to rewrite all the Austen novels for a modern age. Why? It certainly can't be because the originals are unreadable - I'd imagine they are more popular today than they have ever been. One can only assume they see it as a money-spinner. I'm delighted to say I got this book free - and even then it was too expensive.
The original Sense and Sensibility deserves its place as a classic because of the light it casts on the restricted lives and opportunities of the sons and daughters of the 'gentry' in Jane Austen's time. This fake S&S concentrates on the same class, but is set in the present day. Unfortunately, society has changed so much that the premise doesn't work. In order to make the story fit into today's England - where opportunity for the middle-classes is almost infinite, where women are freer and more equal than they have ever been and where the norm is for people without money to do that revolutionary thing and get a job - Trollope has decided to make most of the characters completely feckless and thus entirely unsympathetic.
The story begins with the Dashwood family losing their home at Norland. Not because it's entailed - oh, no! Because Mr Dashwood never bothered to marry Mrs Dashwood (Belle, heaven help us!) and so his great-uncle left the house to his legitimate nephew rather than his illegitimate nieces. Already I'm wondering what society this reflects? Certainly not the one I live in, which stopped giving a...fig...about legitimacy back sometime in the seventies and where even the crown is now allowed to pass down the female line. To make it work, Trollope has had to make it overly complex and unbelievable...and we're only at Chapter 1.
So the poor Dashwoods, with only £200,000 and a modern cottage given to them by other rich relatives, have to face up to living within straitened means. Why? Has the concept of going to work never occurred to any of them? Poor Elinor has to give up Uni. Why? Can't she get a student loan and live in a bedsit like everyone else? To be fair, she does get her rich relatives to pull strings to get her a job. But the rest whine endlessly about lack of money making me want to a) hit them collectively over the head with a brick and b) explain that living in a four-bedroom cottage, running a car and popping up to London every weekend to go to parties isn't really poverty!
Then we have Marianne (M!) - in this version a hysterical maniac, rather than the overly emotional but sweet and loving girl of the original. Suffering from constant asthma attacks (presumably because when we get a cold these days, we just take paracetemol and get on with it), she spends her time wheezing, gasping, sobbing, throwing tantrums and being revoltingly rude to everyone and yet being so lovely throughout that no man can withstand her (invisible) charm. To explain this strange anomaly, Trollope tells us approximately 15,000 times that M is stunningly gorgeous, even whilst receiving Intensive Care. I shall brush quietly past the sex episode...
Shall I tell you about Wills(!)? Of course, single motherhood tends not to lead to death these days, so how does Ms Trollope resolve this conundrum and ensure that we understand that he's a bad lot? Well, by making Wills, (who's not just the 'hottest boy in the county', by the way, but a complete 'shagbandit' - charming) into a drug-pusher! Yes, little Eliza is a junkie...
Pah! I can't bear to talk about this monstrosity any longer. I will leave you to imagine whingy Ellie, pathetic Ed, and Mags, the nightmare teenager with an iThing habit. I will ignore the fact that all the married women stay at home to look after their children. I will pretend I didn't notice that we now have a Wills, a Harry and - yep, that's right - the Middletons. I won't even mention the youtube 'trolling' incident...and I refuse to think about the gay party-planner, Robert Ferrars, and his marriage of convenience...
A fake book that tells us nothing authentic about today's society - might work as a fluffy romance (except aren't you supposed to like the heroines in them?) but doesn't work as a serious novel, isn't funny enough to be a comedy and is an insult rather than an homage to a great classic. Read at your peril...
NB This book was provided for review by Amazon Vine UK.
46 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Hey, Marianne's on Facebook!
By celticsfan34
It's hard to fathom why Joanna Trollope wants to jump on the Jane Austen bandwagon at this point in her established career. It's an increasingly overcrowded and tedious bandwagon (what's a bandwagon, anyway?) and Trollope's effort here is not a success. The plot from Austen's novel is translated here almost verbatim to the 21st century but the problem is, in a modern era, it's just not a compelling story. When Austen's young heroines agonized over finding the right husband, it's because the marriage decision for them an irrevocable one, absolutely critical to their emotional and economic lives, for their entire lives. In a contemporary setting, why is it so important whether Marianne ends up with "Wills" Willoughby or "Bill" Brandon? If she makes a mistake, it's hardly an irrevocable one. And Edward's promise to marry Lucy Steele hardly bears the same weight in 2013 as it did in 1811 - no one will think him a cad if he backs out; they'll think he's right not to marry a girl he doesn't love.
Joanna Trollope's earliest novels are terrific depictions of contemporary life - real people caught up in real ethical and moral dilemnas. But her most recent novels just aren't as complex or compelling, and this one is real fluff.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By Amazon Customer
I was so excited when this was published and I eagerly purchased a copy with plans to share my find with my students. As a lecturer of the Austen version I was extremely disappointed with this. The insertion of the modern aspects of life such as the vehicles, the technology, and even Marianne's asthma felt forced. They were necessary for the transition but poorly integrated. The motives for characters' behaviours felt insincere and the spirit of the narrative was lacklustre. It was difficult to care for these uninspiring characters and very difficult to read to the end of the novel. I have yet to get through the last few chapters, while rereading Austen is so rewarding.Trollope retold a story; she did not share a world nor did she inspire one to think about relationships and behaviours. When teaching the Austen text my students were deeply moved by how her characters could be seen in their peers, in their world because Austen's understanding of human nature was so meaningful. Trollope's characters are unconvincing and the world of her narrative lacks the verisimilitude for successful communication.
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