Author Sandra Newman will retell George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four from a feminist perspective, the Guardian reports.

Orwell’s estate has given its approval to Julia, which will recount the events of the classic dystopian novel through the viewpoint of the title character, who was protagonist Winston Smith’s colleague and lover in Orwell’s book.

Bill Hamilton, literary executor of Orwell’s estate, told the Guardian that Orwell’s admirers will find Newman’s novel “a provocative and satisfying companion” to Nineteen Eighty-four.

“Two of the unanswered questions in Orwell’s novel are what Julia sees in Winston, and how she has navigated her way through the party hierarchy,” Hamilton said. “Sandra gets under the skin of Big Brother’s world in a completely convincing way which is both true to the original but also gives a dramatically different narrative to stand alongside the original.”

Newman is the author of novels including The Country of Ice Cream Star and The Heavens. Her next novel, The Men, is set for publication in June 2022.

Variety reports that “there is already tremendous interest” by production companies in adapting Julia as a movie or television series. There’s no publication date set for the novel, which will be published by Mariner Books in the U.S.

Tom Beer is the editor-in-chief.