Reader, I Married Him
September 19, 2006
Stayed up late last night to watch a fab programme on BBC4 called ‘Reader, I Married Him’. It was an hour devoted solely to romantic fiction, from Jane Eyre to…Little Black Dress with contributions from lots of romance authors including Marian Keyes, Jilly Cooper, Katie Fforde and many more.
The best bit (and unexpected) part was the interview with Headline editor Harriet Evans about the new LBD series. The presenter, Daisy Goodwin, really got to the heart of why romantic fiction is so successful and celebrated the whole genre. There are three programmes in the series and next week tackles the subject of romantic heroes. Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester and Rhett Butler will all feature and I understand that readers will be trying to create an ‘identikit’ hero using a police computer.
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