Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field by Melissa…

Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field (2008)

by Melissa Nathan

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I just loved this book - very clever and entertaining. See my review http://www.dnsmedia.co.uk/reviews/view/1118 (

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AnneHudson | Jan 16, 2013 |

In a word, this book was "Lovely" - that's the word that immediately popped to mind when I finished it. Fun story, good characters, and a different setting for Pride & Prejudice.

I think the one thing that kept going through my mind was this: If these people are involved in a production of P&P, and the characters themselves comment on how like their roles they actually are, why don't they find it strange/weird/funny that their lives are imitating the P&P story? Yes, fict...more In a word, this book was "Lovely" - that's the word that immediately popped to mind when I finished it. Fun story, good characters, and a different setting for Pride & Prejudice.

I think the one thing that kept going through my mind was this: If these people are involved in a production of P&P, and the characters themselves comment on how like their roles they actually are, why don't they find it strange/weird/funny that their lives are imitating the P&P story? Yes, fiction, I get it. (

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January_F | Apr 22, 2010 |

A one night only performance of Pride and Prejudice using a combination of professional and amateur actors, for a charity fund raising event. (

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reeread | Jan 31, 2010 |

I was a little hesitant to read this book: who could write P&P better than Austen herself? But Nathan managed to keep the original story running along side a highly modernized (and subtle) version. Two thumbs up! (

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goldnyght | Jan 4, 2010 |

This was a fun update of the story set within the context of a playhouse putting a on a production of Pride & Prejudice. Nothing to taxing, but good British humor. (

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It starts as a lark for Jasmin Field, the charming, acerbically witty columnist for a national women's magazine. She joins a host of celebraties gathering in London to audition for the season's most dazzling charity event: a one-night only stage production of Jane Austen's immortal Pride and Prejudice, directed by and starring the Academy Award -- winning Hollywood heartthrob Harry Noble. And nobody is more surprised than Jasmin herself when she lands the lead of handsome Harry's love interest, Elizabeth Bennet. But things start to go very wrong very quickly. Ms. Field's delicious contempt for the arrogant, overbearing Harry Noble goes from being wicked fun to infuriating. Her brief moment of theatrical glory looks as if it's going to be overshadowed by the betrayal of her best friend, the disintegration of her family and the implosion of her career. And suddenly she can't remember a single one of her lines. But, worst of all, Harry Noble -- who, incidentally, looks amazing in tight breeches -- has started to stare hard at Jazz with that sort of a glimmer in his eyes...

Fresh, wild, wonderfully romantic and absolutely hilarious, Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field is Jane Austen as the great lady herself never imagined it.

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Jasmin Field is amazed when she is cast in the leading role of a charity production of "Pride and Prejudice", and as her life begins to fall to pieces, she finds comfort in the arms of a fellow actor.

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