Before My Oxford Year was a book or a movie, Whelan was originally hired to work on a screenplay that Burnett had started. However, as she began assisting on the screenplay, Whelan thought the story needed a longer version, so she transitioned from writing a script to writing the novel.

This post contains spoilers for My Oxford Year now on Netflix. School is now in session for My Oxford Year, which arrived August 1 on Netflix. The film, based on the book by Julia Whelan, watches Sofia Carson’s Anna De La Vega attend Oxford University for a year before she returns to the

My Oxford Year’ has officially arrived on Netflix, but the ending of the film is completely different from Julia Whelan's novel.