Sense & Sensibility

Joanna Trollope’s much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility will launch The Austen Project and be one of the most talked about books of 2013. ‘It’s 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.’ Joanna Trollope 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 pairing of Joanna Trollope and Jane Austen received global coverage, from the NEW YORK TIMES to the TIMES OF INDIA. The Austen Project continues with Val McDermid’s reworking of Northanger Abbey in Spring 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Pride and Prejudice in Autumn 2014. Joanna Trollope, the Sunday Times bestselling author, masterfully reworks Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility into a contemporary fiction. This romance saga is a testament to her prowess in bringing to life family dynamics and the trials of coming of age. For fans of Jojo Moyes (The Giver of Stars), Maeve Binchy (Light A Penny Candle), Mary Wesley (The Camomile Lawn), Amanda Prowse (All Good Things), and Elizabeth Noble (Love, Iris).