The BBC has announced this week that screenwriter Andrew Davies is to adapt the Vikram Seth novel, A Suitable Boy for the BBC. It will be the first time the novel has been adapted for the screen, and given the length of the novel, the eight hour (in hourly episodes) adaptation sounds like it might be the perfect way to portray the popular novel onto the big screen.
A Suitable Boy is historical fiction and tells the story of Lata, a young woman coming of age in Northern India who has three different suitors vying for her hand on marriage. Set against the political backdrop of an India that was tumultuous at that time, it was first published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1993.
Andrew Davies is working hand on hand with Seth on the adaptation and the author states that it has been a pleasure to work with the BBC on the television adaptation.
A Suitable Boy is a modern classic and beautifully written, evoking a vision of India that readers are unlikely to forget. As such a descriptive piece of work, it’s likely that the series will be wonderful! A Suitable Boy will be filmed on location in India and produced by Lookout Point, the company behind the recent adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
In other news for fans of the novel, Seth is currently writing a sequel, A Suitable Girl and this will be published by Orion. With no current release date for the series, you still have time to read the novel before the series airs, but don’t waste too much time, it’s rather long!
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