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lizbee ([personal profile] lizbee) wrote2009-02-15 09:35 pm
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Re-reading childhood favourites...

I have just finished re-reading The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and I've just begun Black Hearts in Battersea. As I re-read Aiken's Hanover novels, I find myself with just one question:

How is it possible that the BBC hasn't made a series of family-friendly TV movies based on these novels? HOW, I ASK YOU? Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Simon and Billie Piper* as Dido Twite, with cameos by every actor in England as various other characters.

Admit it. Now you're wondering the same thing. MATT SMITH CAN PLAY DOCTOR FIELD. ADMIT IT, THIS IS THE BEST IDEA I'VE EVER HAD!

* Well, yes. Who else?

[identity profile] marymac.livejournal.com 2009-02-15 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I think possibly the only person in that timeline of books that I love more is Arabis. And that's nearly 100% due to her having a hawk.

[identity profile] violetisblue.livejournal.com 2009-02-15 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I will always be very grateful to the unnamed, distraught little girl who wrote to JA after reading Black Hearts in Battersea and begged her not to kill Dido off.

[identity profile] marymac.livejournal.com 2009-02-15 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She was going to kill her off? Oh my.
Wonderful distraught little girl, definitely!

[identity profile] violetisblue.livejournal.com 2009-02-15 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw her mention it in an interview ages back: She'd definitely meant Dido to have drowned, then she got the letter and began having second thoughts. Huzzah. :-)