on the Sheep's Head Peninsula in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. Thursday's Child was adapted for television by the BBC in 1972. Ballet Shoes was made into a 6-episode television series by the BBC in 1975. In 2007 it was made into a feature-length film for BBC One (UK). A Granada production was adapted by the screenwriter Heidi Thomas and starred Emilia Fox as Sylvia Brown, Victoria Wood as Nana, Emma Watson as Pauline Fossil, Yasmin Paige as Petrova Fossil, Lucy Boynton as Posy Fossil and Richard Griffiths as Great Uncle Matthew. Noel Streatfeild also wrote 12 romance novels under the pen name "Susan Scarlett". Allusions in other works Noel Streatfeild was recommended by Meg Ryan's character in the 1998 film You've Got Mail. "Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theatre Shoes and Dancing Shoes and...I'd start with Ballet Shoes first. It's my favorite ... although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful. But it's out of print." Works discovered posthumously Two unpublished short stories by Streatfeild were set to be published by Virago Press in November 2018 and mid-2019 after they were discovered by Streatfeild's nephew, William Streatfeild, and Donna Coonan, the editorial director of Virago Press. Selected works Children's fiction Ballet Shoes (1936) Tennis Shoes (1937) The Circus Is Coming (1938), also published as Circus Shoes The House in Cornwall (1940), also published in the US as The Secret of the Lodge (1940) The Children of Primrose Lane (1941), also published as The Stranger in Primrose Lane Curtain Up (1944), also published as Theater Shoes Party Frock (1946), also published as Party Shoes The Painted Garden (1949), significantly abridged and published in the U.S. as Movie Shoes White Boots (1951), also published as Skating Shoes The Fearless Treasure (1953) The Bell Family (1954), also published as Family Shoes Wintle's Wonders (1957), also published as Dancing Shoes New Town (1961) Apple Bough (1962), also published as Traveling Shoes A Vicarage Family (1963) The First Book of the Ballet (1963) The Children on the Top Floor (1964) Away from the Vicarage (1965) The Growing Summer (1966), also published as The Magic Summer Caldicott Place (1967), also published as The Family at Caldicott Place The "Gemma" series (1968–69) Thursday's Child (1970) Beyond the Vicarage (1971) Ballet Shoes for Anna (1972) When the Siren Wailed (1974) Far to Go (1976), sequel to Thursday's Child Meet the Maitlands (1978) The Maitlands: All