Acting up

This novel was written by late Melissa Nathan who was a British writer. I have always wanted to read novels written by British writer, hoping to get some idea of Britain and British English from them.

I was fascinated by the book cover of Acting up, (in fact, that one of the criteria for me to choose a novel.) and the story is taking place in London. I found I was forcing myself to finish it. It's not a very good novel. It's a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. You can always guess what's going to happen next. As far as I am concerned, Jazz is being unacceptably rude to to Harry Noble, just because she overheard him saying Jazz is uglier than her sister and some gossips about Harry from another actor who wants to slander Harry after his Hollywood career was detroyed for treating Harry's sister like dirt. And I don't think there are people like Harry Noble existing in this world who have been nice to Jazz no matter how bad she treats him and would like to give in himself to his most disliked aunt in order to clear the mess of her family. It's not very fascinating at all. Although most the review of this book is quite positive, I guess I just have a different opinion from them.