All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Lisa Mulcahy, ranked

In the depths of a vast and remote estate in wild Ireland, lives Maud, an 18-year-old girl recently haunted by the sudden death of her father and inheritor of all his wealth. Her uncle Silas, suspected of murder, is deemed the trustee of Maud until she turns 21. The wolves begin to circle her, with Silas as the puppeteer of a group of predators, all eager to get their share of the spoils.

Set in the East End of London in the early 1960s Vivien Epstein is the daughter of a traditional suburban Manchester Jewish family comprising father David, mother Liza and a relative Roza whom the family is sheltering. The father arranges a marriage (without Vivien’s desire nor consent) with the father of a local Jewish boy. Vivien already has a beau, Jack, who leaves for London, desolate.

The series unfolds in Sanctuary, a quaint town in the UK, where the routine of daily life is disrupted by allegations of murder following the discovery of a boy’s accidental death.