Meanwhile, Sian Reese-Williams ( Line Of Duty, Hidden) stars DI Maia Lincoln, a woman with a case to prove, Juliet Stevenson is Mathilda Anchor-Ferrers, an intelligent yet neurotic wealthy housewife, with Owen Teale ( Game Of Thrones) as her wealthy and well-connected husband Oliver. Annes Elwyplays their daughter Lucia Anchor-Ferrers. a b Dunn, Adam (17 March 2002). "A disturbing journey into the pedophile mind". SF Gat. San Francisco, CA . Retrieved 29 July 2021. Iwan and Sasha have fresh, young faces that are both charming and disarming. Therefore you invite them in and, without realising, you’re basically asking the devil in for a cup of tea because they are plausible as policemen, which is how they present themselves initially. By the time you start to ask questions, it's too late. I was totally absorbed from the start. Bloody, intriguing, twisty and fast-paced.' -- ***** Reader review

These guys give us a pretty bad time but not only that, they want to be heard and they want an audience. Honey has got a captive audience in us in the scene where the wonderful Juliet Stevenson, who plays Oliver’s wife, is hanging upside down while he trots out his opera performance from the Barber of Seville. On the surface, it’s a crazy, cruel comedic scene but it reveals how, on different levels, people can be and what they want from each other. Set primarily in an alternate universe, her most recent novel, The Book of Sand, is the first in a series published posthumously under the author name THEO CLARE.Hayder also wrote the screenplay for De Behandeling (2014) which was a Belgian film of an adaptation of The Treatment. [15] [16] So what links these two stories? Well, we’ve got no idea yet, but it looks like we’re going to be gripped until the big reveal. Who else is starring in it? She followed Birdman with The Treatment, which opens with the discovery of a husband and wife found beaten and restrained at their home, their young son missing; the Observer called it “a bleak, powerful story of child abuse”. Dunkel went on to publish 10 novels as Mo Hayder – her seventh, Gone, won the Edgar Allan Poe award and her 10th, Wolf, is being adapted by the BBC. She won the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for an outstanding body of work in 2011.

The last 25% of the book rushes by in a roller coaster of emotion and I was almost "hiding behind the settee" to read it, reading whilst hiding your eyes is not easy at all. And then the amazing twist right at the end made me want to scream but was of course, just perfect. Another draw to this project would be filming in Wales, it’s been a joy and I really adore the crews. They have been so supportive and allow me to do my best work especially when I’m doing some crazy scenes. Minnet kable, Minnet with the emphasis on the first syllable. Usually the name is never spoken aloud in this household. Mo lived in Bath with her daughter Lotte-Genevieve. She was also the actress Candy Davis, who was most known as the blonde secretary on “ Are You Being Served?”

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Wolf: a new BBC One prime time thriller rooted in Wales". Gov.Wales. 26 June 2022 . Retrieved 24 May 2023. Hayder lived in Cheltenham, England with her second husband, Bob Randall, a retired police sergeant whom she married in 2021. [7] [18] She had one daughter. [2] a b c Billingham, Mark (2 August 2021). "Mo Hayder obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 August 2021.

Meanwhile, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family – nervy mum Matilda (Juliet Stevenson), her businessman husband Oliver (Owen Teale) and daughter Lucia (Annes Elwy) –are returning to their Welsh home in rural Monmouthshire so Oliver can recuperate from a heart operation. This character was really about being as honest as possible and honest about fear. You have a TV idea of how you would try to protect your family and when you’re truly desperate and scared, so we’ve really had to imagine what we would do in those moments. It’s been interesting when we’re filming as I’ve often had to stop for a moment and think what these two guys have done to Oliver and his family and I think by now you have to come through and you can’t stay frightened for all that time, so as a result you become quite dangerous. You’ve got nothing to lose if you think you’re going to die. I was chatting to Megan during preparation and there are almost points where Honey gets so wrapped up in what he's doing that he could do something really dangerous and regret it. To get into all of that was a real joy.

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Sian Reese-Williams as DI Maia Lincoln. (Image credit: BBC) Juliet Stevenson on playing Matilda Anchor-Ferrers Matilda is an upper middle class woman from a wealthy family. Her and her husband, Oliver, have two children. The son, who isn't present in the story, is a bit of a big success story which probably means a lot to this family as it seems there’s likely been pressure to be successful in this family. Their daughter, Lucia, who in worldly terms has been less successful and is very troubled. From when we first meet them in the car in the first scene, there is a lot of history and delicate references to the troubles that they’re bringing with them. Her fellow authors praised her as a writer who pushed the limits of the crime genre with her terrifying thrillers. year old Oliver Anchor-Ferrers has just been through surgery to replace his heart valves, and as he contemplates his wife, Matilda, and his adult daughter, Lucia, he also contemplates his own mortality. They’ve come to their beautiful Victorian home they’ve named The Turrets, high on a hill in the Mendips, so that Oliver can recover from his surgery. Lucia is brooding, as usual. It seems she’s never recovered fully since her ex-boyfriend was brutally murdered 14 years ago, not too far from The Turrets, actually, by a madman named Minnet Kable. When Matilda finds something near the house that calls to mind that long ago crime, she’s understandably terrified, and when two men show up, claiming to be police investigating the death of a nearby woman, all hell breaks loose in the Anchor-Ferrers household, calling up old crimes and new vendettas. Mo was a ferociously inventive writer who saw the conventions of the genre as a challenge rather than a constraint,” said Val McDermid. “I remember reading Birdman with a real sense of excitement, that this was a fresh and distinctive voice which also promised so much more to come. She continued to surprise me with her work. I’m so sad we’ve lost not only a fascinating presence but also the books she had in her head.”

Owen Teale as wealthy Oliver Anchor-Ferrers. (Image credit: BBC) Sacha Dhawan on playing Honey and Molina Sacha Dhawan who plays Honey, says: "We first meet Honey and Molina at the beginning of the series when they con their way into the Anchor-Ferrers home. It was great to play those scenes. When I was prepping for Honey, I wanted to make it clear that Molina and Honey are two different characters. Honey, unlike Molina, is very tidy, sharp and focused about making this job meticulous. That's his motivation - to complete it to the best of his ability. The stakes are so high because he's also he's got to fund his family but they’re of course kidnapping a family so there’s a lot of risks and things that could go wrong. Honey and Molina really are chalk and cheese but Molina is the only person Honey has and they’ve got to function together to get out alive.

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Dhawan and Rheon look set to be the double act of the two men who show up at the Anchor-Ferrers house, starring, respectively, as Honey and Molina. Stevenson plays the mother, Matilda, with Owen Teale as her husband and Annes Elwy as their daughter, Lucia. Meanwhile Sian Reese-Williams stars as DI Lincoln. What does the writer have to say about it? A little girl finds a dog with a note in it's collar saying "help me" and so begins Mo Hayder's most chilligly terrifying novel to date.