Captain Wentworth
BBC/Sony TV drama, 1995, starring Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root. ‘All the nice girls love a sailor … ‘
A rich chocolate truffle laced with fine Navy rum - who can resist Captain Frederick Wentworth? Warning: may contain nuts, gleaned from a Somerset hedgerow in chapter 10 of Persuasion …
Man of action, striding about in uniform, secretly nursing a pierced soul and an almost broken heart - The Great JA certainly knew what she was doing when she created Captain Wentworth. And Persuasion also features one of the greatest makeovers of all time - Anne Elliot recovering her youthful bloom amid the sea breezes of Lyme, not a Botox injection in sight.
Why ruin perfection? Well, JA will do her best when Persuade Me is published in 2009.
