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Yep, still my favourite Austen, and I almost missed my tube stop reading that declaration!
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Ok, I know this will be deemed close to sacrilege by many Austen fans but I've never really *got* the attraction of Darcy... For me, Captain Wentworth with his dashing career and his self-made status is Austen's best hero, and this is my favourite Austen novel.
While this doesn't have the sparks and fireworks of Pride and Prejudice, I'll take the muted romance of Anne Elliot - past the first bloom of youth but full of quiet constancy - over Lizzie Bennett any day.
For any lucky person who hasn't read this before (oh, how I envy you the pleasure you have coming!), Anne and Wentworth entered into a rash engagement eight years before until Anne was persuaded out of it by Lady Russell. Now Captain Wentworth, flush with prize money and newly-eligible, is back in the neighbourhood...
This has all of Austen's trademark wit and verve but some of the satire is perhaps harsher than before - in relation to Anne's father and sister, especially. This is offset, however, by one of the most swooningly-romantic declarations of love in the history of fiction.
If you haven't read this yet, don't hesitate - it's wonderful.
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Ok, I know this will be deemed close to sacrilege by many Austen fans but I've never really *got* the attraction of Darcy... For me, Captain Wentworth with his dashing career and his self-made status is Austen's best hero, and this is my favourite Austen novel.
While this doesn't have the sparks and fireworks of Pride and Prejudice, I'll take the muted romance of Anne Elliot - past the first bloom of youth but full of quiet constancy - over Lizzie Bennett any day.
For any lucky person who hasn't read this before (oh, how I envy you the pleasure you have coming!), Anne and Wentworth entered into a rash engagement eight years before until Anne was persuaded out of it by Lady Russell. Now Captain Wentworth, flush with prize money and newly-eligible, is back in the neighbourhood...
This has all of Austen's trademark wit and verve but some of the satire is perhaps harsher than before - in relation to Anne's father and sister, especially. This is offset, however, by one of the most swooningly-romantic declarations of love in the history of fiction.
If you haven't read this yet, don't hesitate - it's wonderful.
