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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: You'll be rooting for this modern-day Austen heroine to find Mr Right
The heroine of Queenie, played by Dionne Brown, fits the same mould exactly as.the heroine of any Austen novel, especially my favourites, Mansfield Park and Emma.
Look past the South London setting, and this eight-part romantic comedy (staying close to its source, the 2019 bestseller by Candice Carty-Williams) is a direct descendant of a Jane Austen novel. She's self-critical, blaming herself for everything that goes wrong — the features she doesn't get commissioned to write by her editor (Sally Phillips), the arguments over nothing with her boyfriend Tom (Jon Pointing), the disapproval of her family and especially her strident Aunty Maggie (Michelle Greenidge). At a birthday party for Tom's mum (and Queenie has already lost the present she was meant to bring), the voice in her head picks the worst possible moment to start broadcasting out loud.
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