article_snippet.sent: TV insiders say Lily James (pictured), who stars in the new Disney cinema hit Cinderella, would be ideal as Mary in the new TV adaptation .
article_snippet.sent: writer Julian Fellowes added: 'It is rooted in darkness and starts with a murder, which spreads It shadow over many of the principal characters.'
article_snippet.sent: The novel tells the story of Doctor Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of Greshamsbury in Barsetshire with writer Julian Fellowes beautiful niece, Mary, a girl blessed with every gift except money.
article_snippet.sent: Mary has grown up alongside the Gresham sisters – Augusta, Beatrice and Alexandrina – and Beatrice and Alexandrina –
article_snippet.sent: handsome brother Frank, whose home is the great house and estate at Greshamsbury Park.
article_snippet.sent: When the terrifying Lady Arabella Gresham discovers that the terrifying Lady Arabella Gresham son Frank has fallen in love with Trollope's 1858 novel Doctor Thorne's penniless niece, Mary is horrified.
article_snippet.sent: Doctor Thorne is harbouring a secret about Mary's parentage which threatens to bring everyone's world crashing down.