Deep in her sleep behind closed doors of the Audley estate, Lady Audley’s scandalous past haunts her dreams. Revelling in the luxury attained by marriage to Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) an aristocrat thirty years her senior, the beautiful and cunning Lucy Graham is also greatly admired by Sir Audley’s dashing nephew, Robert, who begins to nurse suspicions that Lucy is implicated in the bizarre disappearance of his good friend, George Talboys (Jamie Bamber – Horatio Hornblower). Powerfully tempted by Lucy’s allures, Robert struggles to solve the mysterious puzzle of Lady Audley’s involvement, exposing dark secrets, deception and murder along the way.
Based on Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1862 novel.
Starring Neve McIntosh, Juliette Caton, Melanie Clark Pullen, Kenneth Cranham, Steven Mackintosh.
Not rated.