Sense Sensibility, Joanna Trollope
Sense Sensibility, Joanna Trollope
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Sense & Sensibility

Author: Joanna Trollope

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 10/29/2013

Synopsis

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, they discover that 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 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, when it comes to money especially, some things never change. . . .

About Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the number-one bestselling author of eighteen highly acclaimed contemporary novels, including The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law, and The Soldier's Wife. She was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and was the chair of judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in London and Gloucestershire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bebe (Sarah) on December 15, 2013

Not worthy - even in the capable hands of Joanna Trollope, this retelling of Austen's classic is just chick lit pablum. And there is no way I'd ever characterize Austen's work as such! I've always enjoyed Trollope's work, but here, she brings none of her usual finely drawn characters and subtle comm......more

Goodreads review by Nicolette on December 25, 2013

I appreciate the mission of the Austen project, but this story was not successful for two main reasons. First, the was an element of forced modernization - a mention of an iPad or Facebook seemed to exist just for the sake of reminding the reader of the time period regardless of if it interrupted th......more

Goodreads review by Aimee on October 16, 2013

I'm a huge Jane Austen fan. I've read all her books hundreds of times, and the thought of anyone else taking on her work initially made me very nervous, so I'll admit that when I was asked to read Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope I was a little aprehensive. As a fan of the deeply crafted cha......more

Goodreads review by Melissa Rochelle on September 01, 2013

S&S has never been my favorite Austen novel (my favorite wavers between Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice depending on my mood), so I was hesitant about this modern day retelling. I think Trollope did a fantastic job of staying true to the Austen novel, but maybe a little TOO true to the sou......more

Goodreads review by Ria on September 20, 2015

Ah, give me hope, Joanna! Да, аз съм разглезена до безобразие от дълга линия добри съвременни интерпретации на книгите на Джейн Остин - "Дневникът на Бриджит Джоунс" ("Гордост и предразсъдъци"), култовото Clueless ("Ема") и др. И въпреки това "Разум и чувства", преразказана от Джоана Тролъп, ме вбе......more

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