Beatrix Potter fue una mujer inteligente y carismática que se vio obligada a luchar contra los convencionalismos de su época para poder dedicarse a su pasión: los libros infantiles. Potter se enamoró de Norman Warne, su editor, quién le ayudó a alcanzar la fama con sus creaciones para niños del personaje Peter Rabbit.
Inglaterra, mediados del siglo XVII. Tras la victoria obtenida por los puritanos en la guerra civil (1642-1648) que enfrentó a la Corona con el Parlamento, el rey Carlos I Estuardo fue ejecutado (1649); además, la Monarquía fue abolida y en su lugar se implantó la República (1649-1660). El líder parlamentario rebelde Thomas Fairfax, miembro de la aristocracia, proyectaba una reforma moderada de la monarquía, pero su lugarteniente Oliverio Cromwel, que era un fanático dominado por el ansia de poder, exigió la ejecución del rey y la instauración de la República. Finalmente, Cromwell acabó imponiéndose a Fairfax.
A solitary schoolgirl, prone to sudden blackouts after she's stumbled into a murder scene, gets involved with her English teacher. Then, when his wife is also murdered, questions about what's real and what's made up start haunting her.
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.
