![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet inherited a bundle from a third cousin. The most significant change is that the Bennet’s are wealthy – nouveau riche – since Mrs. There are plot changes, but half the fun is remembering the differences, and seeing her logic in updates. Rushton has been faithful to the original storyline, cleverly transferring the machinations of Regency courtship into the traumas of 21st-century teenage search for romance. The Bennet family always wanted to be well connected. Her teenage Lizzie Bennet and sisters are still hunting for beaus, but with all of the advantages of modern technology: mobile phones, laptop computers and blackberries. In her fourth book in the Jane Austen in the 21st-century series for young adult readers, (and some older adults who are forever young at heart), author Rosie Rushton tackles Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, retelling the story with a contemporary twist. ![]()
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