Andrew Davies’ Sanditon Is An Austen Tale Only He Could Create

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Screenwriter Andrew Davies has already adapted Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and Emma for television but his new iteration of the author’s tragically unfinished final novel, Sanditon is a creation distinctly his own. Davies reveals how he found the plot in Austen’s 24,000-word fragment, and what he embellished on his own in creating the new series.

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