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LatestJess, one year older and seemingly rehabilitated, returns to grace, taking Pastor Finch's sermon at the Blackpool Beach Mission. She meets Katy who replaces Melanie in her affections when it becomes obvious that Melanie has put the past behind her. Her one true friend Elsie is ailing and Cissy Fields, the local undertaker, takes her in when Mother and flock disown her, finally deciding that she is lost. But Jess dreams of books and Oxford.
Acting
Geraldine McEwan's Mother is terrifyingly specific — every hymn a weapon.
Writing
Jeanette Winterson's voice bleeds through: brutal, funny, mythic.
Production
Fairy-tale visuals that weaponize whimsy against horror.
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