![]() ![]() ![]() We begin with the heroine Charlotte Heywood in her home of the hamlet Willingden, a small world where she lives happily with her large family in 1819. You may first watch and read Sanditon and think that the scandal shown is incongruous to Austen, but the direct address of colonialism, empire and slavery, hedonism, the place of women and issues of social class were alluded to in the Austen-penned beginning. ![]() Don’t worry, I’m not going to give away any spoilers as episode 1 has only just aired – but what Riordan has done has conveyed the spirit of Austen’s characters (and the storylines crafted by Davies) onto the page of her book. Andrew Davies has done a fantastic job: Sanditon is exciting, thought-provoking, entertaining and dramatic – all the things I think Jane Austen was pushing for in those first twelve chapters she drafted.Īnd, not only has Andrew Davies done a fantastic job, but so has Kate Riordan in her novelisation of the TV series. Did you catch the first episode on Sunday? I have a confession to make: although I’m now based in the US, I managed to catch Sanditon on UK television before I left… and you’re in for a treat. This is such a treat of a review for me today – I’m so grateful to Grand Central Publishing for gifting me a copy of Sanditon to read and review to coincide with its release in the US on PBS. ![]()
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