Eligible

‘Curtis Sittenfeld is brilliant. She’s very honest about relationships and the unspoken stuff that goes on between people. She’s a very good student of human nature’

MARIAN KEYES

‘Eligible is a wickedly funny retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with plenty of modern twists’

Good Housekeeping

‘Sittenfeld is triumphant in her modern take on Austen … the story has a great pace and witty, wry, spot-on social observations’

Grazia

‘Eligible is funny, clever and really rather sweet’

Heat

‘[A] clever, witty novel’

Hello!

‘A sharp, satirical book with literary cred’

The Times

‘A magnificent read’

Independent

‘Clever, funny and terrifically entertaining’

Sunday Times

‘Eligible is inventively and mischievously done’

Literary Review

‘Deliciously readable’

Mail on Sunday

‘Sittenfeld pulls off the modernization splendidly … brimming with feminist life lessons’

Porter

‘Sittenfeld proves once again that when it comes to dialogue, she reigns supreme’

Readers Digest

‘It is a testament to her sharp dialogue and astute observations that the novel works both as an updating of a classic and a satisfying story in its own right. Austen would approve’

Sunday Express

‘Familiar, yet surprising – and full of acerbic wit’

Sunday Mirror

‘A sweet, touching and human story’

Sunday Times

‘Sizzling sexual tension makes for the perfect poolside indulgence’

Mail on Sunday

‘Pitch-perfect … a pure joy from the very first page’

ATTICA LOCKE

‘Unwholesomely addictive … compulsively readable’

Spectator

‘With […] deft wit and clear-eyed compassion she tackles new social dilemmas’

The Times

‘If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it … Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming’

Elle

Dedication (#ulink_5744f41b-044b-5be5-952b-d4dbbdb79755)

For Samuel Park,

Austen devotee and beloved friend

Epigraph (#ulink_34ff4fc0-2a2c-5a3c-a85e-9d070aee9c4f)

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times.

—MARK TWAIN

Contents

Cover (#ubaa370c5-3f56-521d-8696-568e508ddc84)

Title Page (#u8ca4b787-9e55-5305-bd71-3db1eec4a182)

Copyright (#u1bef1ca4-08b0-5f86-b667-86f29e2a40b2)