WHY DID I GIVE MY SANDITON AN UNHAPPY ENDING? TO MAKE THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY SHRIEK FOR MORE

Tonight, millions of television viewers are bereft. The final episode of their Sunday-night fix of Sanditon, Andrew Davies's adaptation of Jane Austen's last, unfinished novel set in a seaside village, aired last Sunday. The audience was anticipating the usual, cosy Austenite ending when, after eight weeks of romantic stops and starts, the heroine — in this case Charlotte Heywood (played by Rose Williams) would fall into the arms of the brusque hero, Sidney Parker (Theo James). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]