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Are there any books that you have read that you can 'see' as a film? There is a book by Elizabeth Goudge (well series of three but each can be read as it stands) called "The Herb of Grace". A family saga if you like, but would make a very good feel good film set just after the war, if one could find the perfect locations. It is a very 'visual' book.

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The Squirrel of Wirral lol

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The Rainbow Garden by Lucy Maud Montgomery

That would be good Mel :) also Rilla of Ingleside.

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was it grey eeyore ?

Rilla of Ingleside is number 8 it would be brilliant ~ have you read all of Lucy Maud's Rose I think I have all that can be bought in England and a few brought back from Canada x

I think so Mel, I have some of them and have read others from libraries over the years. Must have a look and see if I missed any.

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I like reading true stories, so really anything of a biographical nature would be just the thing for me....

......at the moment I am reading Georgiana the Duchess of Devonshire who is an ancestor of Princess Diana and related to the Spencers (Dukes of Marlborough) and Cavendishes (Dukes of Bedford) with a grad mixture of aristrocrats in her lineage.....

......also I think from a historical angle it would be interesting to see the clothes and attitudes of the period......

sally

It was a book I read to my Son-long ago :)

ok I can alwes let you borrow wen I see you at meets ~ they are very precious friends x

Hi Sally , have you seen the film?

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Has a film been made of it then Rose.......if there is I would love to see it, just for the costumes and the intrigues.......they did get up to some right old rumpy-pumpy in those days......lol....

One costume drama I missed, it was on years ago, called the Churchills and this one was about Sarah Churchill who was very close to Queen Anne (I think), but she got too big for her boots and Anne finally put her in her place......the part of Sarah was played by Susan Hampshire.....

Never quite been interested in the 17th century, so it is good to see what the times were like....... like that one on BBC1 recently called Vice, about the Bow St. runners, and set around 7 Dials near Covent Garden where MiL was born........

sally

oops should have said 18th century.....

Hi Sally yes last year

The Duchess (2008), played by Keira Knightley. The film, directed by Saul Dibb, is based on the biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.

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Oh thanks Rose!.......I hope it is out on DVD and I will get a copy........I did see advertising for a costume drama with Kiera Knightly, but didn't pay any attention to it........just shows, these films could be around and I am missing them.....

Pillars of the Earth. by KEN FOLLET,a Historical fiction containing a lot of facts of the time.

Yes, The Duchess is out on dvd. Someone on my course showed a clip of it as part of their presentation.

It can be bought on Amazon for £6.28