The Girl on the Landing Makes Her Presence Known
Steve Barton
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Marriage can have its ups and downs. During said downs it could help to have a supernatural distraction to get you through the tough times but … are you just hallucinating?
According to Variety Brit scribe Julian Fellowes has just finished penning the script for a feature adaptation of Paul Torday’s tome The Girl on the Landing. The psychological thriller/love story is set in Scotland and London and tells the tale about a young couple whose dull marriage is transformed when the husband is visited by strange hallucinations.
Book Synopsis:
Michael is dressing for dinner at a friend’s country house in Ireland. As he descends the staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner Michael comments on the painting to his hosts, but they say there is no woman in the picture. When Michael goes up to bed later, he sees that they are correct. This is only the first in a series of incidents that lead Michael to question his grip on reality. His wife, Elizabeth, is unsettled by the changes she sees in the man she originally married because he was dependable and steady, not because she loved him. She realizes she has never really known Michael, and as he changes, she sees glimpses of someone she could fall in love with. Michael, in the meantime, is disturbed by events at his family’s ancestral home in the wilds of Scotland and by a past that is threatening to destroy everything, and everyone, he has ever loved.
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