‘Jane Austen is for everyone’: novelist Diana Reid on adapting Sense and Sensibility – and surprising Brits with her accent

<p>The Australian author of Love and Virtue says her nationality didn’t give her pause when she wrote the script, but Ang Lee’s ‘perfect’ 1995 film did</p><p>The summer Diana Reid spent writing her film adaptation of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/21/sense-an