

Olivia, through her contact with the Nawab, provides his views of the British, so the reader gains multiple perspectives.

Women have a subservient role and are expected to be dutiful and reserved.

Their view of India’s population comes across as mostly negative. Throughout this story, the reader will become familiar with conditions in India in the 1920s – poverty, disease, crime, and the ever-present “heat and dust.” The letters contain the views of Olivia’s British social circle. While in India, the narrator’s life starts to parallel that of her step-grandmother. In the 1970s, she inherits Olivia’s letters and journals, which further piques her curiosity. The narrator has always been intrigued with her family’s history. Later, the friendship became an infatuation, and a scandal ensued. She had developed a friendship with the local Nawab, an Indian Muslim prince. Her English step-grandmother, Olivia, had lived with her husband, a British official, in Satipur in the 1920s, during the era of the British Raj. From New York in season one to LA in season two, season three abruptly ended with lead character Joe headed for Paris in search of Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) after faking his own death.Published in 1975, this book tells the story of an unnamed British woman who travels to India in search of her step–grandmother’s past. Originally airing in 2018 on Lifetime, You moved to Netflix for its second and third seasons due to popularity. In the face of American outsider Joe, Kate begins to embrace her moniker of “ icy bitch.”Ĭharlotte Ritchie is best known for her roles in Call the Midwife and Ghosts, as well as guest appearances in Doctor Who and Death in Paradise.īased on Caroline Kepnes’ novel, You follows Joe, a narcissistic and obsessive man who will do anything for love, including harass, stalk, and murder. When boyfriend Malcolm invites Joe into their world, however, Kate takes a disliking to him, becoming suspicious of his intentions. Kate prefers ‘arrangements’ to love, which is why she dates fun but self-centred partier Malcolm.” The daughter of a chaotic, bohemian single mother, Kate worked hard to create the life she now leads. Ghosts’ star Charlotte Ritchie has been cast in Netflix’s You alongside Penn Badgley (Joe) and The White Lotus’ Lukas Gage (Adam).Īccording to Deadline, Charlotte Ritchie will play Kate, a woman who is “fearsomely smart, independent, suspicious, misses nothing.
