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THE NOVEL OF THE HIT INDIE FILM

''If, like me, you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman''s Love & Friendship'' The Times

''Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect'' New York Times

''Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked'' Vogue

With a pitch-perfect Austenian sensibility and wry social commentary, filmmaker and writer Whit Stillman cleverly re-imagines and completes one of our greatest writers'' unfinished works. Love & Friendship is a sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Austen and Stillman fans alike.

JANE AUSTEN''S FUNNIEST NOVEL IS ALSO HER LEAST KNOWN - UNTIL NOW.

Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who''s coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands - and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest''s wife and the title of ''most accomplished coquette in England'', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy.

Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law''s country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to ''I do''. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue.

A SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING JANE AUSTEN''S ORIGINAL NOVELLA AS ANNOTATED BY THE NARRATOR.

PRAISE FOR LOVE & FRIENDSHIP THE FILM

''A RACY DELIGHT'' Guardian *****

''FIND ME A FUNNIER SCREEN STAB AT AUSTEN, AND I''M TEMPTED TO OFFER YOUR MONEY BACK PERSONALLY'' Telegraph *****

''TREMENDOUSLY WITTY'' Independent *****

''MAY JUST BE THE BEST JANE AUSTEN FILM EVER MADE'' London Evening Standard *****