Love & Friendship
In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
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Love & Friendship
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Narrated by:
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Helen Johns
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Matt Addis
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By:
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Whit Stillman
About this listen
A clever reimagining of Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan by acclaimed filmmaker Whit Stillman.
Jane Austen's funniest novel is also her least known - until now. A sharp comedy of manners set in the 1790s, Love & Friendship centres on Lady Susan Vernon: impossibly beautiful, charming, witty and completely self-absorbed. Recently widowed, Lady Susan arrives unannounced at her brother-in-law's estate to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society.
While there, she becomes determined to secure a new husband for herself and one for her reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica, too. As Lady Susan embarks on a controversial relationship with a married man, seduction, deception, broken hearts and gossip all ensue.
With a pitch-perfect Austenian sensibility, Stillman breathes new life into Austen's work, making it his own by adding original narration from a character comically loyal to the story's fiendishly manipulative heroine, Lady Susan.
©2016 John Whitney Stillman (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton