Dickensian

I don't think I have read Bell Book and Candle. I don't know where I got that from.

For some reason I thought it might be M.R. James, or Poe, but it seems it was Van Dryten?

I might have been thinking of The Chimes.

It's a bit similar.

I think so phoenix. I had it in a paperback with some other Christmas stories. Think another one was called The Cricket on the Hearth. Didn't get far with that. Oxfammed the book years ago.

Was Bell Book & Candle a Dickens book?

Why would anyone leave their house and take a rolling pin with them?

It can't have been her, so who nicked her rolling pin?

But I can't google them all by 8.30.

No need to be well versed in anything except Google nowadays jingl

Roses, I laughed out loud at the fate of Inspector Bucket!!! He certainly did look very down at heel when he re emerged!!!
Thank goodness, I've been really worried about that baby to the point that I've been thinking that Frances might do away with her!, let's face it she's mad enough!! If baby is more than likely Esther, the she clearly survives!!!!
The Pegottys from David Copperfield lived in an upturned boat, but they're not featuring in Dickensian.

Are we all supposed to be well-versed in Dickens to appreciate it then? The few of his books I read years ago, I have mostly long forgotten. I do remember Miss Havisham, and a family living in an upturned boat. And then there was Bell, Book and Candle. God knows what that was all about!

Lily I agree and that's the point really. Will baby Esther become the Esther from Bleak House or not? Will the whole series turn out to be a prequel of the various Dickens novels? We don't know how Jacob Marley died in A Christmas Carol and given that his ghost didn't appear until seven years after his death, perhaps he was murdered. Will any other characters end up with a different fate? Will Bill murder Nancy before the end of the series? Questions, questions.

Personally I think baby Esther will become Esther from Bleak House, but I am excited to find out.

If you really want to find out what happens to the baby just Google Bleak House and look at Wickywhatnot.

If they don't travel too far away from Dickens and if the baby survives, won't it be Esther Summerson from Bleak House? Lady Dedlock's guilty secret? As Pittcity says?

Roses - I wondered whether the baby would be Miss Havisham's ward Estelle too.

Now that we're talking about the baby, my mind is boggling at what Frances is going to do next! Just as we thought she would change her ways and live a more happy existence, she goes and does... what? I hope we find out tonight and the plot doesn't move to another part of the story.

Was sad to see that poor old Inspector Bucket had been thrown off the case and sent away to Moscow where he is now living a hand to mouth existence.

It could be Estelle ( brought up by Miss Haversham to hate and manipulate all men.)That's the baby, had it been a boy ( are we sure it isn't?) it could then be Oliver.

Maybe she'll leave it on the Bumbles doorstep?

I meant that there is more than just the baby living in this story that is hopefully still to come...

I thought she picked the baby up meaning to take it to her sister and then changed her mind indicating other plans. I don't think she is evil enough to kill it but doesn't want her sister to be happy because she isn't.

I thought the acting last night was superb; I was totally absorbed [and traumatised by the end of it]. I'm glad of the 'spoiler' as it means I can function properly today #still traumatised

Err. You just did Pittcity! That was a spoiler.

So long as she doesn't just shut the cupboard door and leave the baby in there.

We knew the baby would live because the child, Esther, is being brought up by her Aunt in Bleak House. I won't spoil it for those who don't know the story.
It seems Dickensian is prequelling the books well and beginning to tie up the loose ends. Fabulously thought out and brilliant acting.