Jennifer Ryan
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Jennifer Ryan:
Do you agree with your character Venetia that adult life is about ‘learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise’?
Jennifer Ryan
Sadly, I do. I think the world of a child is a wondrous place where everything’s possible. Adulthood comes with an array of complicated options and compromises, and we have to do the best that we can.
Poor Venetia is trapped in the very worst of situations where she simply has to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Poor Venetia is trapped in the very worst of situations where she simply has to choose between the lesser of two evils.
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Sue Seligman
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Jennifer Ryan:
That's awesome that the company responsible for Downton Abbey bought the rights for your book! I'm not sure about the actors....maybe Reese Witherspoon for the choir director, Ruth Gemmell for Mrs. Tilling (she was in Home Fires and Downton Abbey), Emma Watson as Venetia? Emma Stone as Hattie? Dakota or Elle Fanning as Kitty? This is a really hard question.
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