Secrets of Strangers with Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Thomas Ellis believes in ghosts and miracles and God but she doesn't believe in Christmas. In 'Home Life', her weekly column for the Spectator, she transforms
NW1 into a Gothic drama and the making of mayonnaise into a miracle from Genesis.
But in her novels, she is the author of the highly-acclaimed The Twenty-
Seventh Kingdom and her sixth book The Clothes in the Wardrobe has just been published, the characters she creates acquire an independent existence of their own. She is somebody for whom the only reality is her fiction. Tonight's
Bookmark looks at the conflict between her two worlds and at her own attempts to examine the difference between them - her factual account of a family faced by an inexplicably delinquent child, written with her analyst Tom Pitt-Aikens .
Film cameraman REMI ADEFARASIN Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL Producer NADIA HAGGAR
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS
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