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E N O L A H O L M E S | P E R S P E C T I V E 4 1 I was just back from Western Australia filming an adaptation of Tim Winton's Dirt Music, where the Art Department had been based in a series of tents on the southern fringe of the Buccaneer Archipelago two and a half thousand miles north of Perth, when I was asked to meet director Harry Bradbeer to talk about Enola Holmes. So, while walking into the Soho House with an arm load of early Victorian photography and eighteenth- century floral illustration was a complete change of scene, things went well and we were quickly having an animated discussion about Dickens, ciphers and the meanings of flowers. The premise of Enola is that Sherlock Holmes has a much younger sister who has been home schooled by her eccentric mother and a group of suffragettes in Ferndell Hall in the English countryside. The disappearance of her mother and the threat of incarceration in a boarding school leads her to run away to London to find her mother and much mayhem ensues. Through a chance meeting on a train, she becomes embroiled in a plot to thwart the Reform Act. In the process of foiling the plot she comes to understand her mother's role in the suffragette movement and the reason for the special training received at home. Ferndell Hall The script describes Ferndell as a rundown and dilapidated place, Enola's mother having diverted funds to the suffragette cause. This idea was combined with the floral paintings that Enola's mother made, and that are themselves a crucial B A. ENOLA'S CHILDHOOD HOME AT FERNDELL HALL. SET PHOTO BY ALEX BAILEY. B. ENOLA'S TREEHOUSE AT FERNDELL. BUILT ON LOCATION. SET PHOTO. © 2020 LEGENDARY © 2020 LEGENDARY