Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon to be adapted by ITV

Andrew Davies, whose credits include War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice, will bring Austen’s last novel to the small screen

Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon is being adapted into an ITV series by Pride and Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies.

The final incomplete novel about a young woman, Charlotte Heywood, who moves to the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon and meets a man who is trying to turn it into a fashionable resort, was written only months before Austen died in 1817, and has never been adapted before.

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