Romance has been a top selling genre for decades
3 ROMANCE BOOKS YOU MAY LOVE TO WATCH IN 2022
We love a good Romance but we don’T always get a happy ending
Love has many faces
Romance has been consistently the top selling genre of books for decades, but the very word implies a happy ending – and that isn’t always the case with the many shades of love that our stories tell.
From first love to dark love to forbidden love, these three adaptations offer a different perspective on love and romance from three very different authors.
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Anne Todd’s After series started as fan fiction and grew to become a phenomenon in its own right. Ever After Happy is Book 4 in the series and has been download over a billion times on the web. It’s a story of a relationship in which secrets from the past open up a different side to the personalities of Hardin and Tessa. A classic ‘can they survive’ story.
Redeeming Love has become an American classic. Published over 20 years ago, it’s a period piece set in the Gold Rush of the 1850’s and centres around Angel, sold into prostitution as a child and whose journey back to love is a powerful message from its author. This story explores themes of emotional, physical and religious love.
Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday has often been described as a masterpiece, a layred complex story that is sunversive and sexy. It explores the impact of war, the injustice of class systems and a study of parallel lives.
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant – and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.
— Graham Swift
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AFTER EVER HAPPY
Channel| Amazon Prime
Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford bring the chracters to life in this story, which has been downloaded over a billions times in book format. Bound to be a hit? You can find out on Amazon Prime in September 2022.
REDEEMING LOVE
CHANNEL| AMAZON PRIME
REDEEMING LOVE is a powerful story of relentless love and perseverance as a young couple’s relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. It is a life-changing story of the power of unconditional and all-consuming love. REDEEMING LOVE shows there is no brokenness that love can’t heal.
Released in theatres originally and now availabel on streaming channels including Amazon Prime, Abigail Cowen and Tom Lewis play the leads in this sweeping tale from author Francine Rivers.
Mothering Sunday
Channel | Amazon Prime
‘Exquisite . . . Mothering Sunday shows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system‘ Kazuo Ishiguro
HBO have ordered a pilot script for the adaptation of Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last completed novel.
Jane Fairchild is a maid who works for the wealthy Niven family. On Mothering Sunday Jane is given the day off to spend as she likes. To her surprise Paul Sheringham, a wealthy neighbour, invites her over to spend the day with him while his parents, the Nivens, and the Hobdays have lunch together.
Paul and Jane have been having a secret sexual affair for years, since Jane’s arrival at the Nivens’s estate; however, Paul is due to marry Emma Hobday, a woman in his social circle who was once unofficially engaged to Paul’s friend James Niven, who died in The Great War. Both Paul and Emma have mixed feelings about their engagement but feel compelled to marry nevertheless.
A stellar cast with Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth amongst the British Institutions playing lead roles