The author transfers the action to modern-day Cincinnati, with brief excursions to New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, and really makes that work for her characters and the story. There will of necessity have to be changes, compromises and tweaks to the original and these all work for me here.
If you’re going to carry off a successful modern retelling, you can’t simply transplant a 200-year-old story to a modern-day setting. As Liz is consumed by her father’s mounting medical bills, her wayward sisters and Cousin Willie trying to stick his tongue down her throat, it isn’t only the local chilli that will leave a bad aftertaste.īut 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. Jane is entranced by Chip Liz, sceptical of Darcy. But Chip’s friend, haughty neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, can barely stomach Cincinnati or its inhabitants. Ĭhip Bingley is not only a charming doctor, he’s a reality TV star too. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men. For two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. Soon enough they are being berated for their single status, their only respite the early morning runs they escape on together. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. They’ve 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. The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Eligible is the fourth retelling of a Jane Austen novel in the Austen Project series and arguably the hardest to do because of how well known and loved Pride and Prejudice, the source novel, is but I think Curtis Sittenfeld has pulled it off with aplomb.
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