Why does the book feel like such a homecoming? I had an opportunity to consider that. I feel that way about Pride and Prejudice. I respect and admire the others, but Pride and Prejudice is a novel that I almost feel like I’ve climbed inside, as a reader. Were there other Austen books you would have preferred to adapt? I would not have wanted to do a different novel.
It’s taking something real and then making it my own. That book borrows the architecture of a real person’s life, and this book borrows the architecture of another novel.
My friends said, “It’s kind of what you did with American Wife,” which is loosely based on the life of Laura Bush. But before I did, I thought, Well, I’ll reread Pride over Christmas and I’ll see if this is something I could do. When The Austen Project approached you in 2011 about doing this novel, did you consider saying no? I had the impulse to say no. Sittenfeld and I discussed that question, why she thinks The Bachelor is brilliant, how she handled the name Fitzwilliam, and more.
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