'Persuasion' - Jane Austen's tale about the stiflingly dull life of Anne Elliot, who at nineteen gave up her engagement to satisfy the strict and snobbish ideas of her class-obsessed father.
Eight years later, faded and quiet, what future does she have?
The pain of what might have been is made worse when Captain Wentworth returns and she has to see him apparently falling in love with a much younger girl.
But events make Frederick Wenworth realise how much he still values and admires Anne, and suddenly, he realises he still loves her. Only - is it now too late for him?
He pours out his feelings in a hastily scribbled letter, often considered the most romantic letter in all English literature.
