Episodes

1. Villa to Let

2. Where the Water Goes

3. A Battlefield

4. The Urbino Trail

Overview

Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

Details

Cast

Susan Fleetwood

John Gielgud

Michael Pennington

Rosemary Leach

Caroline Waldron

Veronica Lazăr

Suzanne Hay

Samantha Glenn

Siria Betti