But when Mr Bennet has a heart attack in summer 2013, Jane and Liz return to the family home to help out. Their older children, Liz and Jane, are the only ones to have flown the family nest and earned their own living they both live in New York, where Jane is a yoga teacher and Liz a journalist. Characters, key plot points, the straightforward novel format – all remain more or less the same. Her new novel, Eligible, is the fourth in Borough Press's The Austen Project, in which 21st-century authors retell Austen's novels in a contemporary setting. The delightful web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a more explicit updating of the story, told through video blogs in which characters speak directly to the camera.Ĭurtis Sittenfeld, however, was faced with a particularly rigid challenge. Jo Baker's brilliant Longbourn showed the Bennets' family home from the servants' point of view. Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary was a direct homage to Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet's romance, but it didn't stick to Austen's plot too closely. So how do you rework Austen’s original without telling the audience something they already know? Jane Austen's 1813 novel created the template for the modern romantic comedy (with a little help from Much Ado About Nothing), which now means that as soon as we encounter a fictional man and woman who clash but are clearly attracted to each other, we know that eventually they are going to end up together (with or without a vast country estate). It's hard to write about Pride and Prejudice without falling into cliche. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen pastiche.
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