Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey before moving to Maryland. She currently lives in Yorkshire, England with her family. Battle-Felton holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. She is an associate teaching professor and the academic director of creative writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Her debut novel, Remembered, won a Northern Writers’ Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
Here Battle-Felton dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Curdle Creek:
Curdle Creek, the film, would be set in a rural town with grand houses on one side and smaller houses on the other. One of the houses would be a big pink and white Victorian house similar to the one I grew up in. The rest would look bespoke with handcrafted embellishments, a lion or two on a stoop. The town would be clean swept and nearly festive. It would look like a self-sustaining town with local shops all along Main Street, a bustling Town Hall, a farm or two, one stop light, and an abundance of bells. On the surface, Curdle Creek could be any rural town.Visit Yvonne Battle-Felton's website.
Osirus would be played by Denzel Washington and have more lines in the movie than he does in the book. Angela Bassett would play Constance or Mother Opal. Both are powerful characters and because she is Angela Bassett, the choice would be hers. Taraji P. Henson would make a wonderful Constance. Osira is the lead and not the first to be cast. But in the film rolling through my mind, Regina King could really capture Osira’s complex character. The role of Jeremiah, another of Osira’s best friends, would be played by Michael B. Jordan. It’s an ever growing, sometimes changing casts. The more roles I see these and other dynamic actors play the more I’d love to see them bringing Curdle Creek to life on the screen.
The Page 69 Test: Curdle Creek.
--Marshal Zeringue
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