Read one of Jane Austen’s works as if it’s my first time?
Oh, could I please?
And the answer
is yes!
Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, has been asked to write a 21st century version of Emma, Jane Austen’s fifth novel .
He said the request was “like being asked to eat a box of delicious chocolates.” If that’s the case, then reading it will, I think, “taste” even better! McCall Smith’s writing is so full of warmth, humour, wit, and colour that I expect much from these contemporary versions.
The book is set to be in bookstores next autumn. Too long, I know!
But a version of Sense and Sensibility by author Joanna Trollope will be out this month.
Hurrah!
And versions of other Austen novels are set to follow.
Read the full story here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24383000
Isn’t it lovely to read GOOD news?
And for more on Alexander McCall Smith, great promoter of tea drinking and good books, see my post Our Favourite Drink – https://happylittlesigh.com/2012/02/28/our-favourite-drink/
Avonlea x
happy little sigh 