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Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film.

Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Sheer fun . . . a grandly colorful and utterly contemporary comedy of manners.

From After Jane by Jenny Scott,  August 3, 2003
During the filming of Sense and Sensibility in 1995, the Director, Ang Lee, asked members of the cast to write character studies.  Emma Thompson writes in her diaries that Imogen Stubbs, who played Lucy Steele in the film, won "a prize for the best effort in the form of a letter to Elinor from Lucy some years after their respective marriages".  This letter is published as an appendix to the Diaries.
Imogen Stubbs portrays Lucy, now Mrs Robert Ferrars, as a rather spiteful character.  In the letter she patronises Elinor, Edward, Marianne, Margaret and Mrs Jennings.  She boasts of her five children (drawing attention to Elinor's childlessness).  She speaks of a stay with the Prince Regent, her close relationship with her mother-in-law and her affluence. As this letter gives details of the lives of the characters after the ending of Sense and Sensibility it is considered to be a continuation of Jane Austen's novel.