The Austen Project: Sense And Sensibility

When Fanny Dashwood descends on Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, Belle Dashwood’s three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret must face the reality of life without their father, their home, or their money.

As they come to terms with life without the status of their country house, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are also confronted by the cold hard realities of a world where sometimes people’s attitudes can change as drastically as your circumstances.

With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts her clever satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. By casting Sense & Sensibility in an elegant and fresh new light what might appear to the modern eye to be all romance, bonnets and betrothals becomes a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around, and how when it comes to money, some things never change…