Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive.

This work is heartfelt

From the eighteenth century

of the lasting impact of war

a writer and her two young sons move to London

hope and renewal

their racial identities

after she is kidnapped by criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II for a large ransom of 24-karat gold

" says Little Crab

but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge

her message about the importance of living peaceably side-by-side with nature will linger long after the last page is turned

For some reason

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019