In this vivid new adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel we meet the Dashwood sisters whose happy lives are dramatically changed in the wake of their father's death. Their home is taken by their half-brother and his overbearing wife and they must learn to live on much less far away from all they're accustomed to. Amid their misfortune love alights: the very sensible Elinor falls for the equally cautious Edward Ferrars while the flighty sensibilities of Mariann