Fairchild

Good English families all have a house in the country with a deer park, a trout stream and an army of gardeners. They should have a son and if it can be managed, he should be handsome. Cleverness isn’t important. Daughters in limited quantities are fine so long as they are pretty. Bastards are inconvenient and best ignored. It's not a big problem, unless you are one.Unfortunately, Sophy is.Sick of her outcast role, she escapes her father’s house, only to fall from her horse during a spring storm. Injured, soaked and shivering, she stumbles to a stranger’s door – Tom, a blunt edged merchant from a family of vulgar upstarts. Mistaking Sophy for the genuine article, he takes her in.Sophy can’t resist twisting the truth. Soon she’s caught in her own snare – and it might just be a noose.

Since graduating from acting school in 1998, Lucy has been performing in theatres in the UK, including at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Traverse Theatre. She has appeared on TV in Garrow's Law and Rivercity, and has performed in over 200 radio drama productions for the BBC, including four series of Paul Temple and many episodes of Daniel Deronda, Woman's Hour, Short Stories and Readings.

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