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Book SynopsisDiscover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love Jane Austen''s classic romance novel.
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Trade ReviewPacked with wit. -- Helen Dunmore * Daily Express *
The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist * Independent *
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste * Virginia Woolf *
Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen -- Alexander McCall Smith
Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing
Curious Incident. Was it
To Kill a Mockingbird? Was it
Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book most often in my mind was
Pride and Prejudice -- Mark Haddon
