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Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she would always be “The Girl” – Matthew Thornton’s bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew’s wife, Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her.
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The Girl: Directed by David Wheatley. With Mark Benton, Susan Jameson, Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Cake. In mid-19th century Northumberland, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her.
- (503)
- Drama
- David Wheatley
- 1996-02-16
We begin in 1850, when a redheaded child runs up to a man on a horse and begs him to help her mother. The girl is The Girl, Hannah Boyle. The man on the horse is Ned, who is supposed to be a hardscrabble farmer type.
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (née McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998), was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while she retained a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers.
The Girl. Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she ould always be "The Girl"--Matthew Thornton's bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew's wife Anne, she fled for protection...
- reprint
- Catherine Cookson
- Corgi, 1982
Directed by David Wheatley. Adaptation of Catherine Cookson’s novel. In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her.
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Suffering his way first through love of a woman who ignores him, then through love of a woman who is married to a man who doesn't quite treat her right, he bears a burden far more severe than hers.
