It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride & Prejudice doesn’t update terribly well–it’s so hard to know what to do with Lydia, and marriage does not occupy the same place in society it once did. In The One That Got Away, Melissa Pimentel makes a solid argument that Persuasion might be the Austen work which best survives a contemporary setting. It is perhaps an evergreen notion: the rekindling of a youthful infatuation given up due to peer pressure. Ruby Atlas is thrown into the […]