"Packed with wit." (Helen Dunmore Daily Express)"The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist" (Independent)"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste" (Virginia Woolf)"Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen" (Alexander McCall Smith)"Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing Curious Incident. Was it To Kill a Mockingbird? Was it Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book most often in my mind was Pride and Prejudice" (Mark Haddon)

Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of english literature is a misjudgement.