Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale (BBC2) was as faithfully yet thoughtfully reproduced for the screen as you would expect by Christopher Hampton, who among many other things wrote the scripts for Dangerous Liaisons and Atonement. There's not a lot that can go wrong with that and nothing did. A bestselling book comprising a dying writer, an untold tale, a curious biographer, incestuous ancient couplings, fey-slash-homicidal children flitting about crumbling mansions on the moors, close-mouthed housekeepers, handsome gardening lads, skeletons emerging from loamy soil, high staircases and blood-spattered marble floors, made into a film starring Vanessa Redgrave and Olivia Colman and shown on a cold December evening.
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