Silver Spring, MD — Based on the provocative, bestselling novel by Joanne Trollope, A Village Affair, debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on May 26, 2009. Filmed on grand English estates and picturesque countryside, this lavish 1994 British production follows an illicit love affair that scandalizes a tranquil English town and is available to U.S. audiences for the first time with its DVD release. The drama stars Sophie Ward (The Shell Seekers), Kerry Fox (Welcome to Sarajevo), Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries), Jeremy Northam (Emma, The Tudors), Michael Gough (Batman), and Claire Bloom (Brideshead Revisited), with 9-year-old Keira Knightley in one of her first screen roles.

Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin (Kerry Fox) befriends a couple new to her village. The husband (Nathaniel Parker) is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for someone else: his wife, Alice (Sophie Ward).

Alice has a gilded life—beautiful children, a handsome husband, and a stately home. Secretly, she’s depressed after the birth of her third child and unhappy in her marriage. Clodagh proves irresistible. As their love grows, they realize their secret may be impossible to keep.

English novelist Joanne Trollope has written numerous novels including The Rector’s Wife and Friday Nights. A Village Affair was written in 1989 and this adaptation aired in the U.K. on ITV in 1995.

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