THE BOOK ON THE NIGHTSTAND: PERSUASION

This is a novel based on a second chance.
In the world of possibilities where the timing plays a great role, grasp what life puts in front of us is a must.

So even Anne Elliot tries to catch her second chance. The protagonist can finally try to live what had been ripped off, her love for Frederick Wentworth. Life takes, life gives and Anne is determined not to reject again what she has already once turned away because persuaded by her family.

After “Pride and Prejudice”, I didn’t purposely read nothing else written by Jane Austen. Was too strong the feeling that no one title would be up to her novel. Despite this “Persuasion” amazes me.

Read it because is the favourite book of a sensational Sandra Bullock in “The Lake House”, a film I have seen in one of the many Friday-cinema club with Francesca, my best friend, and I fell in love before reading it. Just like a magic I had been kidnapped by the words of Kate, the actress: “it’s a book based on waiting, two people who meet each other and fall in love, but at the wrong time and they have to separate. Years later they meet again and have another chance but they don’t know if it’s been too long time because the long wait may have changed things.”

Sometimes it’s necessary to have the courage to live the life that we have chosen and Anne had it. To all those who love Jane Austen, to eternal optimistic, to sentimentalist: read it again, if you can, because as only happens with the classics “they have never finished to say what they are saying”; read it, if you want, because it’s one of those books that you think you know and you’ll end up finding new and unexpected.

Time of reading: a week

Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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