Sense & Sensibility

Thoroughly enjoying this book

I think this is Jane Austen's funniest book - her descriptions are so tongue in cheek- - Northanger Abbey is her other book that I found to be this witty

To me it seemed as though since the characters are not as extreme as they were in "Pride & Prejudice"

I think therefore that its a harder story to tell

Mrs Dashwood  is not as foolish as Mrs Bennett
Marianne is not as silly as Lydia
and
Willoughby is not as villianous as Wickham

I was constantly reminded of Pride and Prejudice

It starts with a similar them of a dull relative inheriting the home of the ladies and in one way or another turning them out of their home

From wikipedia
"Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, is a British romance novel by Jane Austen, her first published work under the pseudonym, "A Lady." Jane Austen is considered a pioneer of the romance genre of novels, and for the realism portrayed in her novels, is one the most widely read writers in English literature. A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England in 1792 through 1797,^[1] and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor andMarianne, daughters of their father Henry's second wife, Mrs. Dashwood. The sisters are starkly different from each other; Elinor is the epitome of prudence and self-control while Marianne embodies emotion and enthusiasm. Elinor, Marianne, and their younger sister, Margaret, are left in reduced circumstances when their father dies and his estate is passed onto their half-brother, John. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meager cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merge"