Elinor is an architecture student of reserved and organised disposition, Marianne a passionate musician, Margaret a delightfully in-your-face teenager generally plugged into an iPod or mobile. Like their counterparts in Jane Austen’s original novel, they and their mother are reduced to penury after their father’s death and forced to move to an unromantic cottage on the estate of a kindly relation where Marianne falls for the glamorous, no-good Wills and Elinor nurses a secret love for the limp but honourable Edward. After numerous ups and downs, heartbreak and, most importantly, heaps of moral development, all comes right. Austen fans will appreciate the care and cleverness with which Trollope mirrors almost every episode in the original novel. Making Marianne an asthmatic, fo