Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonStella Kirby (a bewitching Charlotte Emmerson) ran away to be an actor eight years ago. Now she has unexpectedly returned to the family home, Eden End. But there is no fatted calf, and it is no paradise. Stella's ageing father, a country doctor, believes she has been living out the dreams he was too cowardly to pursue; her younger sister, Lilian, is resentful of her elder, more beautifu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AM on June 8, 2011