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Film Description
Anna Maxwell Martin and David Morrissey lead the cast in the BBC’s vivid adaptation of Winifred Holtby’s novel.
Scripted by Andrew Davies and set in 1930s Yorkshire, a place emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression, it sees Sarah Burton (Maxwell Martin, excelling in the role that Dorothy Tutin played in Yorkshire Television’s 1974 version), come home from London to take up the position of headmistress at a struggling Yorkshire high school for girls. Having lost her chance of marriage and motherhood with her fiance’s death in the trenches in the Great War, she is now a progressive reformer. Although she thinks she is done with love, it is clear from the moment she meets David Morrissey’s haunted gentleman farmer that love is not yet done with her, and she is shocked to find herself losing her heart to a man she would have thought least likely to win it.
With its rich and varied cast of characters, this is rewarding viewing that also cannily relates to recognisable problems of economic hardship and questions of how to live in our own times.
