Austen is both a challenge and an opportunity when it comes to translating into graphic novel form. Her books deal with complex social hierarchies and subtleties, but Nancy Butler and Sonny Liew do an excellent job of adapting Sense and Sensiblity. The pictoral element of graphic fiction can make light work of portraying paragraphs and pages of the novel and Liew elegantly makes the most of the format to communicate feelings and motivations.
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters left impoverished and bereft of their family home by the death of their father and inheritance of the house by their elder half brother. Elinor is sense, calm and determed, deep thinking, self sacrificing and loving, Marianne is sensibility, impulsive, passionate, headstrong and hasty. Both have lessons to learn in life and Austen's novel is well handled by Butler.
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