Pride and Prejudice - and I do mean the book, not all the adaptations. Jane Austen was a genius at satire and biting irony - she critiqued landed gentry while still being very funny and making sure her novels were a good read. Most of all, for me, was the fact that, in the 18th century when women were second class citizens, she was the ‘original’ feminist - all her novels had strong female leads and the men were almost secondary to the stories.

Austen died in 1817 at 41 from Addison’s Disease (a condition of the adrenal glands which is now treatable) and I think it’s testament to how good she really was that her stories are still known worldwide 200 years later.