An adaptation of the classic novel on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth. With echoes of the illness and loss that wracked Brontë's own life, both novel and play explore the redemptive power of love and the uncertainty of holding on to it. Lucy Snowe, alone and abandoned, boards a boat in search of purpose. Arriving at an archaeological site digging for the remains of the elusive Lady of Villette, she works alongside the beautiful Gin, the prying Beck, the charming Dr John and the remote Professor Paul, though Lucy remains an outsider. Absorbed in her work to find a cure for the next pandemic to secure humanity's future, can she open herself up to the possibility of love and put the bones of the past behind her?

Linda Marshall-Griffiths writes for theatre and radio. Her original plays include Dream of White Horses, Things Might Change or Cease and Pomegranate. She has also adapted for BBC Radio Four To the Lighthouse, Wings of the Dove and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Her contemporary re-imagining of Orpheus and Eurydice won the Grand Prix at the Prix Marulic Festival 2016. She lives in Yorkshire.