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The Tale of the Bookworm
2014
Life in Squares
The tangled loves of the Bloomsbury Group.
6.557m20151 season
Drama
The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
Directed by Simon Kaijser
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Eve Best
Older Vanessa Bell
Phoebe Fox
Young Vanessa Bell
Lydia Leonard
Young Virginia Woolf
James Norton
Young Duncan Grant
Ed Birch
Lytton Strachey
Christian Brassington
Cuthbert
Al Weaver
Leonard Woolf
Jack Davenport
David Garnett
James Northcote
Adrian Stephen
Lucy Boynton
Angelica Garnett
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Jerome Finch
Saxon Sydney-Turner
Catherine McCormack
Virginia Woolf
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
David Garnett
Rupert Penry-Jones
Duncan Grant
Anton Lesser
Dr. Hyslop
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Episode 1
2015-07-27 · 57m
Painter Vanessa Stephen and her writer sister Virginia embark on a life of unexpected, post-Victorian freedom in bohemian Bloomsbury. But when they are introduced to flamboyant male admirers, their idyll is rocked and the sisters' relationship is threatened.
Episode 2
2015-08-03 · 57m
As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.
Episode 3
2015-08-10 · 57m
Twenty years have passed and it is 1937. Duncan and Vanessa remain at Charleston Farmhouse, painting, living and loving alongside each other. Vanessa’s children Julian, Quentin and Angelica also live with them. Julian is determined to fight against Franco in the Spanish civil war, while Angelica, who remains unaware of her true parentage, goes to London to become an actress.
