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Country
  
United Kingdom

Genre
  
Crime / Mystery novel

Publication date
  
23 July 1993

Director
  
Stuart Orme

Screenplay
  
Reg Gadney

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Author
  
Minette Walters

Language
  
English

Publisher
  
Pan Books

Initial release
  
24 February 1996

Music director
  
Colin Towns

Story by
  
Minette Walters

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Cast
  
Pauline Quirke, Caroline Goodall, Christopher Fulford, Dermot Crowley, Jay Villiers

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The Sculptress (1993) is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. She won an Edgar and a Macavity Award for the book. The novel was adapted as a BBC-TV series in 1996, starring Pauline Quirke as Olive Martin.

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Synopsis

Olive Martin — a 28-year-old, morbidly obese woman — was imprisoned for life after police found her cradling the shattered bodies of her mother and sister, having previously dismembered them and re-arranged their limbs into abstract shapes on the floor, a crime for which she was nicknamed "the Sculptress". Troubled journalist Rosalind Leigh, under pressure from her publisher to produce new material, reluctantly agrees to write a book about Olive and — whilst conducting interviews with the prisoner — gradually comes to believe that she is concealing something, maybe even her own innocence. In her quest to discover the truth Rosalind enlists the help of Hal Hawksley. He is an ex-policeman who investigated the case originally and is still haunted by some of its aspects.

Television adaptation

In 1996 this story was adapted for television by the BBC. The cast featured Pauline Quirke as Olive, Caroline Goodall as Rosalind and Christopher Fulford as Hal.

References

The Sculptress Wikipedia