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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Anna Madeley, ranked
The show revolves around a trio of veterinary surgeons working in the Yorkshire Dales. Siegfried Farnon hires James Herriot into his veterinary practice at Skeldale House. Besides Siegfried and James, there is Siegfried’s younger brother, Tristan, and Mrs Hall, the housekeeper at Skeldale House.
Over five decades from the 1960s to the early 2000s, wealthy Englishman Patrick Melrose attempts to overcome his addictions and demons rooted in abuse by his cruel father and negligent mother. A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret, a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get possession of the shop, and Nell. In league with his lawyer Samson Brass and Samson’s sister Sally, Quilp seizes Grandfather’s assets.
Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior, a wealthy socialite, struggles to find meaning in her life. Seeking experiences beyond her sheltered existence of privilege, Prior becomes a “lady visitor” to a women’s prison nearby, hoping to find purpose through volunteering. However, Prior becomes strangely intrigued by one inmate, Selina Dawes, a disgraced medium.
A successful writer of children’s books is confronted with the unthinkable —he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, he realises his daughter is gone. Kate’s absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.