Product Description

From the wickedly entertaining () Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of andcomes a modern retelling of Jane Austens . A bold literary experiment, is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the twenty-first century.

This version of the Bennet familyand Mr. Darcyis one that you have and havent met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to helpand discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.

Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online masters degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she wont discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Janes fortieth birthday fast approaches.

Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show . At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chips friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . .

And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.

Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, both honors and updates Austens beloved tale. Tackling gender, class, courtship, and family, Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.

Praise for Curtis Sittenfeld and

If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it. . . . Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming.

Sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austens comedy of manners. [She] is a master at dissecting social norms to reveal the truths of human nature underneath.

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? (starred review)

Sittenfeld adeptly updates and channels Austens narrative voicethe book is full of smart observations on gender and money. . . . A clever retelling of an old-fashioned favorite.

Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one.

Sittenfeld is popular but intellectual, accessible but mysterious and, above alla perspective chameleon with an uncanny ability to enter the minds of callow prep school outcasts and devotedly compromising first ladies alike.NPRs

[Sittenfeld] is a master of dramatic irony, creating fully realized social worlds before laying waste to her heroines understanding of them. . . . Her prose [is] a rich delight.