It’s a great book full stop, but also a great pandemic read because it’s set in this kind of contemporary world that’s also very much not our world. Īnd I can’t let you go without asking if you have book recommendations? Book two is going to be Emma, and book three is going to be Persuasion. I thought it would be funny to do modern rom coms based on different Austen novels, so that’s what I’m doing. When I went back to them, I realized there’s a lot of great stuff here. And then I thought, ‘I definitely need to revisit these books’ because I tried to read Pride and Prejudice when I was younger, and I thought it was boring and never picked them up again. I’d never been a huge Jane Austen fan before then, but after seeing that, I thought, ‘I need to revisit the books.’ Then, my boyfriend and I started watching all these different Jane Austen adaptations, and we liked all of them. I went to see at the cinema, the latest version of Emma, with Anya Taylor-Joy, and I thought it was really great. It’s very much connected to the pandemic. When an old childhood friend comes back to town, she’s very different, and they don’t get along, but they do end up faking a relationship. He has to fake a relationship to increase his chances of inheriting the family pub that he’s been running for a decade. Pride and Prejudice stars Jacob’s best friend Mont, and he is Lizzie. It’s set in the same town where Eve and Jacob live, and it’s about the Montrose siblings. It’s book one in my new series, the Skybriar series, which is a spinoff of Eve’s book. I understand you’re working on a Pride and Prejudice retelling. Maybe if they were friends, they wouldn’t be quite as different, or they’d have a lot more in common, but I’ve always liked the idea of family members being super different people who nevertheless love each other. They have a reason to always be around each other, even if they’re very, very different. So, I thought it would be cool if they were sisters because you get to know the family and their connections. Siblings are a big thing in romance because we love to see side characters and think, ‘Oh! They should fall in love too!” and then that’s the next book.Ī lot of the time, I see books about brothers. What drove you to write a series about sisters? I love the dynamic between the three Brown sisters.
I talked with Talia about the Brown Sisters series, her writing process and what she’s working on now. I devoured each of the three books in a single sitting, alternating between crying and laughing. They’re the literary equivalent of a bear hug from an old friend - comforting and joyful. The sisters’ relationship with each other is just one of a dozen things that make this series a complete and utter delight.
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