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Laddar... Persuading Austenav Brigid Coady
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A laugh-out-loud retelling of a Jane Austen romance, perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Fiona Collins It is a truth universally acknowledged that working with an ex is a terrible idea... Annie Elliot never expected her life to turn out this way: living with her dad, working as an accountant - surely the least glamorous job in Hollywood?! - and dodging her family's constant bickering. Landing a job as a producer on a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice seems like the piece of luck she's been waiting for. Until the cast is announced, and Annie discovers that the actor playing Mr Darcy is Austen Wentworth: the man she's spent nearly a decade trying to forget. Not only is Austen her ex - but while Annie's life has stalled, Austen is Hollywood's hottest property...and has just been voted World's Sexiest Man. With nowhere to hide, there's just one question. Now the one who got away has come back, should Annie stand by her pride? Or give into Austen's powers of persuasion? Brigid Coady was the winner of the 2015 Joan Hessayon New Writers' Scheme Award Praise for Brigid Coady 'Awesome, awesome, awesome! ... Fans of Paige Toon, Sophie Kinsella and Lindsey Kelk, this will most definitely be your thing!' - Sophie Bailey, ibloggbooks.com 'As the story moved from setting the scene and firmly entrenching the reader in a Persuasion rerun to the actual filming it stepped away from a faithful retelling of the story and came into its own right. If you loved films like Ten Things I Hate About You ...you will really like this.' - Alison Robinson, Netgalley Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-BetygMedelbetyg: (3.38)
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A modern day retelling of "Persuasion", in which the updating worked pretty well, I thought. The Elliot and Musgrove families are actors cast in the filming of (confusingly) "Pride and Prejudice", with Anne Elliot as the producer and Austen (again, confusing - why not just Frederick?) Wentworth as Darcy.
It is hard to decide how much I would have enjoyed the story as it stood, if I were not looking out for and appreciating all the nods to the Austen novel. I found the beginning repetitive, with endless reminders of how kick ass Anne is in her job, but how weak in submitting to her terrible family. When we actually saw Anne doing her job, she didn't seem all that great at it - how difficult could it be to spot credit card payments going out of the film's budget?
There was a difference between the Austen novel and this one in the motivation for Anne to refuse Wentworth eight years ago; this novel introduced the concept of Anne needing to "find out who she was" (the answer seems to be - a producer). This muddied the waters somewhat and I found the ending rather abrupt - I wanted Anne and Austen to have a proper conversation about the past and the future. Also, I thought there was going to be a moment when he discovered her tattoo - I was looking forward to it... (