Bettie's Books

bookshelves: victoriana, spring-2014, film-only, yorkshire, period-piece, families, under-500-ratings

Description: Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but Victoria's happiness was paramount to her.

Tara Fitzgerald as Victoria Mordaunt
Cathy Sandford as Lily Whitmore
Nathaniel Parker as Lionel Filmore
James Gaddas as Joe Skinner
Bob Smeaton as Fred Skinner
Brian Hogg as Bill Whitmore
Mo Harold as Annie Whitmore
Anne Jameson as Ma Skinner
Samantha Bond as Bridget Mordaunt
Roger Avon as George Fields
Peggy Shields as Peg the Maid
Preston Lockwood as Bright
Robert Hines as Douglas Filmore

AND **the drum roll of happiness**

Denholm Elliott as William Filmore
Siân Phillips as Daisy Barnett

A real 'CeeCee Noir' this, and how I was cheering at the through the bed covers moment.

5* Tilly Trotter
TR The Dwelling Place
3.5* The Glass Virgin
3* The Fifteen Streets
3' The Girl
5* The Rag Nymph
3* Katie Mulholland
3* The Cinder Path
4* Feathers in the Fire
3* Colour Blind
3* The Silent Lady
3* The Branded Man
3* Pure as the Lily
4* The Maltese Angel
CR The Fen Tiger
4* The Wingless Bird
3.5* The Black Candle

3* The Mallen Streak
2* The Mallen Girl
3* The Mallen Litter