Taken aback by his harsh words, Charlotte wonders if anyone or anything in Sanditon is as they appear? In reaction, he strongly admonishes her for her quick judgment. Charlotte enjoys the evening until she openly shares her decided opinion of Tom Parker with Sidney, which he takes offense to.

The assembly room is lively and full of dancers until Miss Georgiana Lambe arrives, a mixed-race heiress from the West Indies who many of the attendees are eager to meet. Sidney Parker arrives with a party of friends from London to attend Sanditon’s first ball. Everything about Sanditon and its residents is so different than her life as the daughter of a gentleman farmer. Inside, Charlotte is in awe of the splendor of the grand manor house. Parker to visit Lady Denham at Sanditon House, she sees Sir Edward and Clara together in the park engaging in an intimate activity that she is uncomfortable with. Her first day after her arrival is spent sea-bathing, a bracing experience from the cold temperature of the ocean, and by the view of naked men bathing from an adjoining stretch of the beach. Lady Denham is a widow twice over whose heirs are circling in anticipation of her “ shuffle of this mortal coil,”: Sir Edward Denham and his sister Esther, and Clara Brereton, all young and eager to please their aunt to win her approval, and her fortune.Įvery experience in Sanditon is a new adventure for Charlotte-seeing the ocean for the first time and meeting new people. Parker has three siblings: Arthur and Diana, a comical pair who are obsessed with their health, and the mysterious Sidney, whose handsome portrait greeted Charlotte when she entered the Parker home. Parker and his business partner Lady Denham are the two entrepreneurs behind its redevelopment from a fishing village into a fashionable watering-place offering the therapeutic and curative benefits of sea-bathing. The story unfolds from the perspective of Charlotte Heywood, a young lady experiencing her first trip away from her family as a guest of the Parkers of Sanditon, an emerging seaside village on the Sussex coast. Today we are reviewing the novelization!Ī Heroine in the Making Comes to Sanditon That is six degrees of separation that is a challenge to get my mind around.

A tie-in novel based on a screenplay based on an uncompleted novel. Inspired by an unfinished novel that Austen began shortly before her death in 1817, Sanditon, the original novel, the television series, and the novelization by Kate Riordan, all share the same title. A new Jane Austen adaptation/continuation written by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice 1995) debuted last night in the US on Masterpiece PBS.

Sanditon the book