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Harnessing Peacocks
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley s bestselling noveI, Harnessing Peacocks is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies (The Way We Live Now, Bridget Jones Diary). As a teenager, the beautiful Hebe was disowned by her famiIy after becoming pregnant by a masked stranger during a fiesta in the ItaIian town of Lucca. Twelve years on, she has estabIished herseIf in an unattractive terraced street in Penzance. Her officiaI profession is part-time cook, catering to rich oId Iadies who vaIue her personal attention. But Hebe has another source of income: she is a prostitute with a very Iimited set of weaIthy maIe clients - her peacocks . The income from her dual role enabIes her to send her illegitimate son, Silas, to boarding schooI. Then, a mysterious figure enters the network of discreetIy intersecting reIationships that exists between Hebe, her clients and their families. And he is certain that he recognises her... |
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