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The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning
4.0
"I've met enough strong, ambitious women who'd be admired and promoted a hell of a lot quicker if they were men. But because they have two tits and two x chromosomes they get called bitches."
A contemporary re-telling of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, this packs a punch. A force to be reckoned with, Becky Sharp takes centre stage trying to better herself using her beauty and skills of manipulation to gain fame and fortune.
I'm this modern version, Sharp and Amelia Sedley meet on Big Brother, Joseph (Jos) Sedley is the inventor of a protein ball empire in California, George Osborne is a Tory MP, the Pitt-Crawleys are an acting dynasty and the Marquess of Steyne is a Rupert Murdoch-style media mogul.
None of the characters come off well, they're all fairly desperate and awful to one another. I enjoyed trying to work out what adventures Becky would have next and who she would drag into and push out of her sphere of influence as it suited her needs.
Some of the characters fare quite differently than in Vanity Fair, for example Osborne (who dies a hero at the Battle of Waterloo) is disgraced, accused of harassment in Westminster.
It's hard not to cheer Becky's feisty and determined character, who runs rings around the men in her life. Thackeray's plots and characters are still relevant in this feminist and amusing update.
A contemporary re-telling of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, this packs a punch. A force to be reckoned with, Becky Sharp takes centre stage trying to better herself using her beauty and skills of manipulation to gain fame and fortune.
I'm this modern version, Sharp and Amelia Sedley meet on Big Brother, Joseph (Jos) Sedley is the inventor of a protein ball empire in California, George Osborne is a Tory MP, the Pitt-Crawleys are an acting dynasty and the Marquess of Steyne is a Rupert Murdoch-style media mogul.
None of the characters come off well, they're all fairly desperate and awful to one another. I enjoyed trying to work out what adventures Becky would have next and who she would drag into and push out of her sphere of influence as it suited her needs.
Some of the characters fare quite differently than in Vanity Fair, for example Osborne (who dies a hero at the Battle of Waterloo) is disgraced, accused of harassment in Westminster.
It's hard not to cheer Becky's feisty and determined character, who runs rings around the men in her life. Thackeray's plots and characters are still relevant in this feminist and amusing update.