Ralph Fiennes is to direct The Invisible Woman, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's account of the relationship between Charles Dickens and actor Nelly Ternan.
It is not yet known whether Fiennes will star in the film, as he did with his directorial debut, Corialanus. But he would appear to be an obvious choice for the leading role: Dickens was 45 when he met Ternan, then 18, in 1857. Their relationship remained secret from the public, even after Dickens's separation from his wife the following year. Ternan travelled with the author for the rest of his life; after his death, she married a man 12 years her junior, having disguised her own age as 23, rather than 37.
Tomalin's book was published in 1990; Simon Gray's play about the same story, Little Nell, opened in 2007, directed by Peter Hall. The affair was also the subject of two TV dramas.
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