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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030831
Author:Lesley McDowell

It is a brave writer who dons the apparel of a truly iconic author. Several years ago, there was a fashion for this trying-on of others' clothes: Susan Hill's Mrs De Winter was a sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Emma Tennant penned Pemberley to examine Elizabeth Bennet's life post- marriage to Mr Darcy. Both met with mixed reactions: it seems we do not like our great authors and their creations trifled with.

But recently, the challenge has been taken up again. Tennant has gone on to rework Henry James's The Aspern Papers, in Felony; and two years ago, James Wilson's The Dark Clue ...

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