Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Honestly, I enjoyed this book so much I could have sat down and read it through all over again. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men. And then I happened upon Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld’s take on Pride and Prejudice. The author of Eligible, a modern version of Pride and Prejudice, and Prep, set in a US boarding school, Sittenfeld is best known for her fictional stories of two of America’s first ladies. 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. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. 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. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. 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. ![]()
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