Darcy, of course, another high flyer at the hospital but with the original snooty disposition we have come to know and love so well Jasper Wick(ham), a former colleague, best friend and married lover of Liz Charlotte is Liz’s old friend from home, too plump to attract a Chip Bingley, but a career whizz nevertheless. When medical bills make it seem impossible to hang onto the house that has been in the family for generations, Liz steps in to try to persuade her parents to sell and the younger Bennetts to get paid employment. Liz is really the only one who doesn’t need a top up from the Bank of Mom & Dad, and she is appalled at the state of repair of the Bennett family home. Mary spends her time in her room working on her PhD, while Lydia and Kitty are obsessed with working out and don’t even have jobs. They can’t rely on their mother to feed him a healthy diet and their younger sisters, still living at home though well into their twenties, are useless. Journalist Liz Bennett has been living in New York for years along with her yoga instructor sister Jane but both are recalled to Cincinnati to help when their father has heart surgery. With five unmarried daughters, Mrs B’s keen to orchestrate a social event where they can meet Chip. Chip is the recent star of a TV reality series called Eligible (somewhat like The Batchelor), where he broke down in tears during the last episode, unable to choose a bride between the two lovelies who made the final. Mrs Bennett is excited about a certain Chip Bingley who has come to town as an ER doctor at a Cincinnati hospital. Honestly, I enjoyed this book so much I could have sat down and read it through all over again.Įligible is set in Cincinnati, mostly, with episodes also in New York and California. And then I happened upon Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld’s take on Pride and Prejudice. Perhaps the characters in the Austen were too – it’s not my favourite Austen by a long chalk. I’d quite liked Trollope’s version it was fun but the characters were annoying. Then along came the Austen Project – four modern novels based on four Austen novels, written by well-known authors and kicking off with Joanna Trollope’s Sense and Sensibility.
And then there was such a plethora of TV and movie adaptations and they were enjoyable, sure, but somehow my interest waned. There was a time when I was an avid Jane Austen reader adding an Austen novel to my reading talley each year.
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