Author Description

The pictures in the colour insert are taken from the movie MISS POTTER starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, directed by Chris Noonan. A fictional account of how a Victorian woman goes against the odds to become a children's book author and experiences, for the first time, success, independence and, most unexpected of all, love. This book is a novelisation of the movie "Miss Potter", written by the film's scriptwriter Richard Maltby. It is set during the time when bestselling author and illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote and published her most famous tale, about the enduring and beloved character Peter Rabbit.