Thank you, Sandra, for sending many links to articles about Lucy’s new role in The Little House, which is based on the novel by Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl). The ITV website has a synopsis. Lucy is playing Ruth, the main character.

With no family to call her own, Ruth is carried along on a tide of apparently well-meaning family gestures which leave the previously independent teacher pregnant and living in ‘the little house’ at the end of her in-laws driveway.  It’s an idyllic place, and it seems ungrateful to complain when Elizabeth and Frederick have given the picture book cottage to their son and his wife as a generous gift.

Despite initial reservations about moving so close to her in-laws, within months Ruth has, on the surface, settled into her new, apparently perfect life.   But she soon realises she’s completely isolated, living in a house she never wanted and with a baby she hadn’t planned to have.

DigitalSpy.co.uk says that filming will take place in May and June.

Collision star Lucy Griffiths will take on the lead role of Ruth in the drama, while Emma‘s Rupert Evans will play her husband Patrick.

BAFTA-winning actress Francesca Annis, who previously starred in Cranford, and Foyle’s War actor Tim Pigott-Smith will also join the cast as Ruth’s interfering in-laws Elizabeth and Frederick.