Sense and Sensibility Book Adaptations (Part 2)

Samiha Bala
May 3
2 min read

Welcome to Part 2 of Sense and Sensibility Book Adaptations! (If you haven't checked out Part 1, you totally should.) Let's get into the list.

Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson

Sense and Sensibility comes to high-society Georgetown in this refreshing adaptation. Daisy and Wallis Richardson are the daughters of high-profile Senator Richardson, and when he dies, the sisters have to manage scandal, finances, and romance in the precarious world of American politics.

Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh

This YA contemporary re-telling shakes the story we know up a little bit. In this re-telling, younger sister Plum is the introverted, sensible one, and older sister Ginny is the emotional, slightly self-involved ones.

Although the little details might differ, Ordinary Girls wrestles with themes at the heart of Sense and Sensibility: sisterhood, coming-of-age, and the potential pitfalls of defining yourself in comparison to someone else.

Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

This modern take on an old story goes to show that no matter what time you live in, money talks. This retelling takes all the same characters with all the same names and places them in 21st century England. How much has really changed since the days of entailment?

The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic

Finally, this gothic re-imagining sets its characters in a dangerous England, with haunting phantoms, toxic fogs, and monsters of all sorts roaming the countryside. When her family estate is threatened, Merrick Darling must search for her missing older sister Essie and decide who to trust in a world of power-hungry lords and lurking secrets.

I will definitely be picking up a copy of this lush, dark adaptation whenever I get the chance.

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