The Little House

The Little House is a claustrophobic thrilling adaptation of Philippa Gregory's best selling novel which explores the psychological power struggles within one family. BAFTA winning actress Francesca Annis (Cranford) stars alongside Tim Pigott- Smith (Foyle's War) and Rupert Evans (Emma) and Lucy Griffiths (Collision). Ruth is married to career minded Patrick as she is pushed towards the limits of her own sanity when she becomes entangled in the lives of her wealthy but interfering in-laws Elizabeth and Frederick. After falling unexpectedly pregnant Ruth finds herself swept along on a tide of apparently well-intentioned family gestures which leave the previously independent teacher detached from her former city life and living in 'the little house' at the end of her in-laws' driveway. Elizabeth's complex relationship with Ruth develops as they both try and take control of their connected lives until inevitably and very dramatically they reach a point of no return. Ruth becomes gripped with an all consuming fear that her mother-in-law is unnaturally obsessed with her grandson - but is Elizabeth playing mind games with Ruth Could she really be manipulating events against her daughter in-law Or is Ruth hysterically distorting things in her own mind