Page to Screen: Little Women (2019)

Page to Screen is our brand-new, monthly cinema book club! Each month we'll select a favourite book to film adaptation to feature at a special get-together screening. These monthly events will give you the chance to discuss the book and film with fellow readers, in the the comfortable surroundings of Stella Ranelagh. All tickets include a glass of prosecco and nibbles, so you can pore over the character development while we pour the bubbles.

Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms -- is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.