ELIGIBLE

This year the book of the summer is going to be Eligible The Times ''Sheer joy Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice Jessie Burton author of The Miniaturist From the bestselling author of Prep American Wife and Sisterland comes this brilliant retelling of Austens classic set in modern day Cincinnati. The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Liz and Jane are good daughters. Theyve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development. Once they are under the same roof old patterns return fast. Soon enough they are being berated for their single status their only respite is the early morning runs they escape on together. For two successful women in their late thirties it really is too much to bear. That is until the Lucas familys BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . . Chip Bingley is not only a charming doctor hes a reality TV star too. But Chip''s friend haughty neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy can barely stomach Cincinnati or its inhabitants. Jane is entranced by Chip; Liz sceptical of Darcy. As Liz is consumed by her fathers mounting medical bills her wayward sisters and Cousin Willie trying to stick his tongue down her throat it isnt only the local chilli that will leave a bad aftertaste. But where there are hearts that beat and mothers that push the mysterious course of love will resolve itself in the most entertaining and unlikely of ways. And from the hand of Curtis Sittenfeld Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world singing out with hilarity and truth.