It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara.

Scarlett travels to Charleston to visit Rhett's family and tries to corner him by winning his mother's affection.

Back in Charleston, Rhett leaves Scarlett near death at his mother's house, telling her, in a letter, that while he admires her bravery, he will never see her again.

After Scarlett regains her strength, she leaves Charleston with her two aunts, Pauline and Eulalie, to attend her maternal grandfather's birthday celebration in Savannah.

Exploring with Colum, they pass an old house called 'Ballyhara'; it was O'Hara land long before the English seized it.

She makes plans to leave for America but learns that Rhett is now married to Anne Hampton, who is said to resemble Melanie Wilkes.

She works with lawyers and leaves her two-third[clarification needed] share of her father's plantation, Tara, to her son Wade Hampton (fathered by her first husband, Charles Hamilton, brother of Melanie Wilkes), buys Ballyhara and settles down in Ireland, to her Irish family's delight.

As Ballyhara is restored, Scarlett eagerly awaits the birth of her child, praying for a girl and vowing to be a good mother.

Her housekeeper, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, and the midwife whom Colum summons are unable to handle the situation, and it appears that Scarlett will die.

A girl is born with dark skin like Rhett's, but with blue eyes that slowly turn green.

After Scarlett has settled in Ballyhara, she runs into Rhett several times—in America while she is on the boat to Boston, at a fair where she admits she still loves him, and at a foxhunt a week later.

[2] Reviewing the novel for The New York Times in 1991, Janet Maslin said the book was a "stunningly uneventful 823-page holding action.

"[3] Donald McCaig, author of Rhett Butler's People, said it was his impression that the Margaret Mitchell estate was "thoroughly embarrassed" by Scarlett.

[5] It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara.