A century on from the original The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald this reimagining adds a new twist by gender flipping all the characters. A century on the themes hold up to today's world ... with social media / influencers and the A list world of north eastern USA under the spotlight.

Nic Carraway, having finished university, spends the summer in a boathouse, considering her next steps into journalism and writing. Her neighbour turns out to be Jay Gatsby, social media influencer who holds big stylish parties. Jay previously had a relationship with Nic's cousin Danny and over the summer the relationship is re=established ... with deadly consequences.

Having studied and adored The Great Gatsby at school (a long while ago) this was a welcome return to a fabulous story that felt so easily transposed to the 21st century.

This is an unusual book it imagines what life would be like for a female Gatsby if she lived in the present.
She is a social media influencer and the book looks at the pressures of life on social media.
I did really enjoy the Great Gatsby so it was interesting to see how I would feel about this story.
I must say I did enjoy it. The different perspective.
The author made the characters step off the page.
You want Gatsby to succeed and in the original he was trying to fit in underneath the showy personality.
I really didn't like Tom in the original he was selfish and shallow. There is a similar character in this one. I wasn't a fan of Daisy (Danny) either.
Definitely worth a read.
Thanks Netgalley and The Publisher.

Nic Carraway has recently graduated from a prestigious school and wants to make her way as a writer. Her parents agree to support her for the summer and she gets a cheap rental in East Egg. Her cousin Danny is from far more wealth than Nic and she was the one who set him up with his wife, T, who also comes from money. They live in a mansion nearby, as does socialite Gatsby, the divorced wife of a scandalous actor and a high society influencer. Over the course of the summer Nic sees how money influences people and is exposed to scandals at every level, she finds a friend but how much does she really know.
This is a modern-day interpretation of the Fitzgerald book 'The Great Gatsby' and it works very well. The writing is somewhat florid at times but the plot still holds up, especially as the genders are changed. As with the original it is hard for this reader to have any empathy with any of the characters, morals are lax and money is the answer to everything, so the first part of the book really drags for me. However, once the plot moves to the endgame the book really picks up and the last few chapters about the aftermath are probably my favourite parts.

Loving the Great Gatsby as I do, with hindsight I shouldn’t have elected to read this in return for a review. No one will ever manage to do that book justice, and a retelling was doomed from the start. Like the many many remakes currently washing out the box office, original material would be preferable. That being said, I can’t criticise Crowther for trying - she wrote a whole book, she got it published. It’s more than most will do in their lifetime. I’m not sure if it was her intention for it to be so intensely overwritten (perhaps to reflect Nic’s own personality?), or the work of an over-zealous editor, but I struggled to take it seriously. I persevered in reading it mostly out of fascination and curiosity, but I can’t say I enjoyed it.

In this enticing gender-swapped contemporary reimagining of The Great Gatsby, Jane Crowther harnesses Fitzgerald’s exploration of wealth and ambition into an insightful commentary of the digital age.

The Great Gatsby is my favourite American novel, so my standards were high for this adaptation, and it lived up to them. If you couldn't read the original because the story or writing style was too antiquated, please, please consider reading this instead. It updates the classic novel in a way that is truly relatable today while maintaining the original's view on the world.

The story follows Nic Carraway and her mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby, a hugely popular social media influencer whose carefully curated online presence masks her yearning for her old sweetheart. As Gatsby pursues Nic’s married cousin, Danny Buchanan, the novel exposes how social media has become our era's version of Jazz Age excess, with digital metrics replacing the traditional social currency. The dreamy writing style maintains Fitzgerald’s lyrical quality while introducing contemporary language.

This is a perfect adaptation of Gatsby’s themes for the digital era. The influencer culture is a striking and apt parallel to the 1920s nouveau riche, while the gender-flipped characters—especially Gatsby as a female influencer—give incisive commentary on the performance we all must do on social media. I especially like how Jordan was handled in this interpretation, expanding upon my favourite enigmatic character who was featured little in the original.

While this reimagining will please readers interested in the marriage of classic literature and contemporary social commentary, its greatest achievement is how it illuminates timeless themes of ambition, identity, and performance through the lens of our digital age.

Thank you so much to The Borough Press and NetGalley for providing a review copy of this book at no cost and with no obligation. I reviewed this book voluntarily, and all opinions are my own.

A modern retelling of The Great Gatsby? What more could I ask for! With TGG being one of my favourite books of all time, I was ecstatic to receive an ARC thanks to NetGalley. I loved this book and the interesting take on the original with the addition of the gender-flipped perspective. Even if you’ve never read The Great Gatsby, I still encourage you to read this book!

Think you knew The Great Gatsby? Think again in this refreshing gender-flipped retelling of the classic novel. Nic Carraway inadvertently becomes Jay Gatsby’s neighbour when she gets a summer lease in Long Island. Nic’s welcomed into Jay’s life, the parties, the opulence, and in return, Nic reintroduces a long-lost love to her neighbour. But this summer is hot and fraught with history and longing. It’s such an interesting take on what we think we know as the classic text, and it’ll definitely have you appreciate all the intricacies of each character.

I love how this book is a gender flipped reimagining of The Great Gatsby, it brings it into the modern era and felt very exciting.

A modern day retelling of The Great Gatsby? Absolutely count me in! This book works both if you have read the original or not. This book flips the genders and adds modern touches to bring in the relevance.

The book is both for fans of classics and for the ones looking to read a literary fiction. It is interestingly written and I love the premise of the book and the concept of leveraging the classic with a twist. Recommend!

Thank you HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction and NetGalley for this e-arc in exchange of my unbiased review.

I read The Great Gatsby many many years ago so when i heard that this was a modern day retelling I knew I had to read it .

Gatsby is basically a gender flipped version of the original, all the characters are there but have been reinvented , we are now in the world of social media and influencers . the story stays very true to the original which some may like and others not and i feel it's best reading it just thinking of it as a new novel and not to compare . I mean nothing will beat Fitzgerald but honestly this is a refreshing and very good alternative . It's perfect for summer, lots of drama, deceit , obsession and of course romance . The writing is good, I loved the setting and I highly recommend packing this in your beach bag !

I received an ARC of this book thanks to NetGalley and publisher HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction in exchange for an honest review.

I adore the Great Gatsby and the idea of a gender-swapped retelling really appealed to me. Unfortunately I think this book has a fatal flaw and that's trying to copy the writing style of the original.

A modern retelling of Gatsby needs to offer the reader something new. I wanted to see the story updated for the modern age, explore the fundamentals of gender-swapping these characters. However, the writing style tries to mimic that of the original which ironically gives it a dated feel and takes away any originality that the retelling could have offered. I do like that swapping the gender does not change the characters significantly as this avoids stereotypes, but it also means that no originality is added by doing this. Ultimately it felt like I was reading fanfiction and I don't see what this book offers that the original doesn't do better. There isn't anything new to be gained here and that was really disappointing

Overall Rating: 2/5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free advance copy in return for an impartial review. This is a reimagining of The Great Gatsby story, with a twist. I really enjoyed it and the up to date setting with all the trappings of celebrity in the age of social media.

I don’t think you need to have read or enjoyed TGG to get something out of this. The story feels ultra modern in its telling, and we have all seen the rise and fall of “celebrities” play out in real time in recent years.

Recommended.

Unfortunately I was unable to get along with this book and therefore did not read to the end. I did find the book to be very well written and I imagine if you are a fan of classics with a modern twist then this is the book for you.

All the stars for this wonderful book that kept me up late for a couple of nights and had me spiralling between pure joy and absolute sorrow.

A modern retelling of The Great Gatsby by F Scot Fitzgerald, which I am ashamed to say I have never read but now plan to, Gatsby is gripping.

It is set over a summer in New York, specifically Egg Bay on the island, where which our protagonist, Nic, takes a summer out, funded by her parents,as she tries to find herself and path out her career as a writer. Her second cousin, Danny, and her college pal T are married and living on the island. One day, she meets famous influencer Gatsby, who lives next door to the place she is renting, and it becomes evident quite quickly that Gatsby's perfect social media lifestyle appears to have cracks.

So many love to hate characters - T, in particular, had me seething - all so selfish and shallow, battling for attention and not giving a flying f**k who they offend in the meantime. Ha ha! It is a "how the othe half live" story, full of expensive parties and oppulant lifstyles until it all inevitably comes to a head.

On that I will say no more, because who like a spoiler, but this needs to be huge this summer, I want to see it crammed in aiport bookshops and on prominent displays all over the place - it is a perfect, gripping beach read.

Thank you to the publisher for my copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to the publishers and net galley for an advanced ecopy in exchange for a review.’
The book follows Nic who moves to an exclusive wealthy lake neighbourhood. Her cousin and his wife live nearby as well as the social media influencer Gatsby. Before long Nic finds herself girl fanning over Gatsby and is ecstatic to be invited to one of her infamous parties where they start up a friendship. I loved the writing style and felt really fresh and new as a take on the original great gatsby. I will be recommending

A modern gender flip retelling of the Great Gatsby, where Gatsby is a female Instagram influencer and her long lost love is Danny Buchanan, he is in a marriage to a rich woman, his cousin Nic has just left college and trying to make her way as a writer and so you have the gender flipping of this story. When re-writing a classic text, you have to bring a new perspective, I am not sure that there is enough of that in this book. It is so true to the original that it is distracting at times, as you are reminded of such an iconic text. I did really enjoy the modern day setting of the East and West Eggs, getting a sense of what that area is like now and how somethings have changed whilst other things really haven't. I would have enjoyed a book about those changes without drawing quite so heavily on The Great Gatsby, which appeared to hinder the author's wonderful writing.

With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Gatsby by Jane Crowther

Nic spends a summer staying in the boathouse of a friend of a friend on Long Island, trying to establish herself as a writer. She becomes embroiled in the lives of her very rich and successful social media celebrity/influencer neighbour, Gatsby, her cousin Danny Buchanan, his wife T and his famous golfer friend Jordan.

I absolutely loved this reimagining of the classic Great Gatsby. It did an amazing job of being a modern retelling of the original, but was a brilliant story in its own right too. I raced through it and loved every minute of its bird's eye view (via Nic) of some truly awful people! Very VERY highly recommended.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

I was intrigued to read this book as I had read The Great Gatsby many years ago. That for me is an important point; in that I think there needs to be distance between the two books to appreciate this new ‘take’ on the eponymous F Scott Fitzgerald original.
I liked that this new book was set in today’s world with a gender reversal, so that Gatsby is a female very successful influencer, self made and enigmatic. Daisy Buchanan reinvents asDanny Buchanan a feckless but charming young man. All the original characters are here but gender reversed, which although being very 21st century and PC, didn’t quite work for me.
Overall the book was engaging and the motivations were well defined in a modern setting. The writing drew me in and I enjoyed the book.

Although never having never read the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel, I have seen both the Robert Redford and Leonardo Di Caprio film versions. Jane Crowther has cleverly transferred this story from the 1920s to the twenty first century and created a wonderfully reworked modern day version, with Jay Gatsby as a wealthy influencer. The characters were well written, the prose magical, drawing you into the book. This has to be one of the best books I have read so far in 2025.

A beautifully written, thoroughly entertaining read - one I would highly recommend.

I would like to thank Harper Collins, the author and Netgalley for an ARC of Gatsby in exchange for an honest review.

Gatsby, by Jane Crowther
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Release date: 10th April
Insta loves a retelling of a classic ❣️
This retelling imagines what Gatsby would be like in a more recent, modern world. There is a big gender mix up for the characters, which helped to pull this story away from The Great Gatsby a little. It was interesting to see how the story translated to a social media centric world, where people are addicted to their phones and speculation about people in the public eye - cancel culture is rife. 
In my opinion though, this story didn’t vary enough from the OG, and I found it difficult to really become invested in this story without drawing constant comparisons to TGG. This would likely be a good shout for new, younger readers who aren’t keen on classics but would like to have some insight into this story.
Thank you NetGalley & HarperCollins 🫶